{"id":16386,"date":"2015-06-03T10:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyshark.com\/Real-Estate-Reports\/?p=16386"},"modified":"2017-02-14T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:07:10","slug":"americas-best-cities-for-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyshark.com\/Real-Estate-Reports\/2015\/06\/03\/americas-best-cities-for-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s Best Cities for Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you think religion, which U.S. city first comes to mind?<\/p>\n

While we know that a city with many places of worship doesn\u2019t necessarily become\u00a0a \u201creligious city,\u201d\u00a0we were still curious to find\u00a0which of the largest metropolises have\u00a0the most religious venues per population density<\/strong>.\u00a0For this, we looked into our database of over 18 million properties and, for the cities we took into account, we counted the properties which are considered \u201cfor religious use.\u201d<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong>: If you thought one of the Bible Belt\u00a0locales\u00a0made it to the\u00a0#1 spot, you\u2019re miles\u00a0away from the truth. The highest on the list, as you can see in the slideshow below, is Indianapolis, IN with one religious venue for every 289 people<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

#2<\/strong>\u00a0in the list is\u00a0Seattle, WA<\/a> with one religious place\u00a0for every 481 people<\/strong>. Seattle\u2019s case, in fact, is rather insightful, since an analysis recently run by the nonpartisan and nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) reveals that in this city the percentage of religiously unaffiliated residents is 33%, which also ranks Seattle as the 2nd city in the U.S. by number of residents not following religion.<\/p>\n

As for the rest, take a look at our slideshow featuring the\u00a0top 20 US cities with the most religious places per population:<\/p>\n