{"id":405105,"date":"2025-11-26T03:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/405105\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:57:10","slug":"five-things-to-know-about-religious-life-in-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/405105\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things to know about religious life in Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faith is an important part of life in Dallas-Fort Worth. The area is home to over 6,500 places of worship \u2014 the highest concentration among the 10 largest regions in the U.S., according to The New York Times<\/a>. Three of the top 20<\/a> biggest churches in the country are located here.<\/p>\n

Pew Research\u2019s Religious Landscape Study<\/a>, which released new results this year, offers deeper insight into D-FW\u2019s religious life and the ways it has changed over the past 10 years. <\/p>\n

Here are a few key findings from Pew\u2019s most recent survey, conducted in 2023 and 2024, plus earlier data from the research organization\u2019s prior religious landscape survey, which was conducted in 2014. <\/p>\n

Share of Hindu community in D-FW has more than tripled<\/p>\n

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Between 2014 and 2023-2024, the percentage of Hindus in D-FW more than tripled, from less than 1% of the adult population to 3%, according to Pew\u2019s data. <\/p>\n

Hindus were the only non-Christian group that saw that kind of growth in the proportion they are represented in D-FW. Jewish-identified and Muslim-identified adults each remained at 1% of the population in both surveys. The share of Buddhists in D-FW increased from less than 1% to a flat 1%.<\/p>\n

The share of those belonging to religions besides Christianity in D-FW grew from 4% in 2014 to 8% in 2023-2024.<\/p>\n

Protestants moved away from denominations; the Catholic share saw little change <\/p>\n

One of the biggest stories in this round of Pew data is a move away from the two largest Protestant denominations: the Southern Baptist Convention, which once dominated D-FW religious life, and the United Methodist Church. <\/p>\n

Affiliation with the SBC dropped from 10% in 2014, to 6% in 2023-2024. Affiliation with the United Methodist Church, which went through a split over LGBTQ pastors<\/a>, dropped from 5% to 3% from 2019 to 2023. Catholics saw a 1 percentage point drop in population share, from 15% to 14%. <\/p>\n

Most people in D-FW say they pray regularly and believe in God<\/p>\n

According to Pew\u2019s 2023-2024 survey, 85% of adults in D-FW said they believe in God or a \u201cuniversal spirit.\u201d In the survey, 62% of believers said they were \u201cabsolutely certain\u201d; 23% said they were not absolutely certain and 14% said they didn\u2019t believe in God or a universal spirit.<\/p>\n

Prayer was also common among people in D-FW. In the 2023-2024 survey, 48% said they pray at least daily, 27% said they pray weekly or monthly and 25% said they pray seldom or never. <\/p>\n

A majority of people in D-FW say they believe in both heaven and hell<\/p>\n

Among adults in D-FW surveyed in 2023-2024, 69% said they believe in heaven and 62% said they believe in hell.<\/p>\n

In 2023-2024, 28% of people said they didn\u2019t believe in heaven, compared to 17% who said they didn\u2019t believe in heaven in 2014. In 2023-2024, 35% said they didn\u2019t believe in hell, compared to 30% in 2014.<\/p>\n

In shift from 2014, a majority in D-FW now supports legal abortion and same-sex marriage<\/p>\n

In 2014, 48% of D-FW adults said they favored or strongly favored same-sex marriage, and 49% said abortion should be legal in all or most cases. <\/p>\n

Those percentages grew to a majority of adults in D-FW by 2023-2024. In the most recent survey, 64% said they favored or strongly favored same-sex marriage, and 61% said they believed abortion should be legal in all or most cases. The \u201cno answer\u201d category for both questions declined in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faith is an important part of life in Dallas-Fort Worth. The area is home to over 6,500 places…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":405106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7712,18785,11412,7371,25622,80,365,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-405105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-fortworth","11":"tag-demographics","12":"tag-faith","13":"tag-fort-worth","14":"tag-future-of-north-texas-population","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-religion","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115613993853835173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}