{"id":32043,"date":"2022-09-10T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/evangelicals-more-likely-to-be-found-in-fastest-growing-u-s-cities-than-largest-ones\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:54:00","slug":"evangelicals-more-likely-to-be-found-in-fastest-growing-u-s-cities-than-largest-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/evangelicals-more-likely-to-be-found-in-fastest-growing-u-s-cities-than-largest-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals More Likely to Be Found in Fastest-Growing U.S. Cities Than Largest Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Aaron Earls<\/em><\/p>\n

Finding an evangelical in one of America\u2019s largest cities might be rare, but they\u2019re more plentiful in the nation\u2019s fastest-growing cities.<\/p>\n

According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau projections, 10 cities have populations larger than 1 million.<\/p>\n

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  1. New York City<\/li>\n
  2. Los Angeles<\/li>\n
  3. Chicago<\/li>\n
  4. Houston<\/li>\n
  5. Phoenix<\/li>\n
  6. Philadelphia<\/li>\n
  7. San Antonio<\/li>\n
  8. San Diego<\/li>\n
  9. Dallas<\/li>\n
  10. San Jose<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Only 11% of the residents of those 10 metro-areas are evangelical Christians, according to the most recent data available from the Association of Religion Data Archive (ARDA).<\/p>\n

    Texas has the metros with the largest percentage of evangelicals: Dallas (28%), Houston (25%), and San Antonio (17%).<\/p>\n

    Among the 10 top population centers in the country, New York City (4%), Philadelphia (6%), and San Jose (8%) have the lowest percentage of evangelicals.<\/p>\n

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    In terms of raw numbers from ARDA, Dallas again has the most evangelicals (1,823,392), followed by Houston (1,476,398), Los Angeles (1,160,504), Chicago (924,108), and New York City (777,643).<\/p>\n

    The U.S. Census Bureau recently released the fastest growing cities in America. Many of which are suburbs surrounding some of the largest cities.<\/p>\n

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    1. Buckeye, Ariz. (near Phoenix)<\/li>\n
    2. New Braunfels, Texas (near San Antonio)<\/li>\n
    3. Apex, NC (near Raleigh, NC)<\/li>\n
    4. Frisco, Texas (near Dallas)<\/li>\n
    5. Meridian, Id. (near Boise, Id.)<\/li>\n
    6. McKinney, Texas (near Dallas)<\/li>\n
    7. Georgetown, Texas (near Austin, Texas)<\/li>\n
    8. Rowlett, Texas (near Dallas)<\/li>\n
    9. Cloud, Fl. (near Orlando, Fl.)<\/li>\n
    10. Ankey, Iowa (near Des Moines, Iowa)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The ARDA profile of the metro-area containing these cities show a higher percentage of evangelicals.<\/p>\n

      The fast-growing areas are 20% evangelical, almost twice as much as the largest cities.<\/p>\n

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      The Dallas area\u2014containing Frisco, McKinney, and Rowlett\u2014is 28% evangelical, followed by Raleigh (Apex) at 20% and Orlando (St. Cloud) at 18%.<\/p>\n

      The metro-areas with the fastest growing cities that are the least evangelical are Des Moines (Ankey) at 12%, Boise (Meridan) at 13%, and Buckeye (Phoenix) at 13%.<\/p>\n

      The Des Moines area has a higher percentage of Catholics and Mainline Protestants than evangelicals. In Boise, 16% of the population is Mormon.<\/p>\n

      AARON EARLS (@WardrobeDoor)<\/strong> is online editor for Facts & Trends<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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      PicJumbo photo – Pexels By Aaron Earls Finding an evangelical in one of America\u2019s largest cities might be rare, but they\u2019re more plentiful in the nation\u2019s fastest-growing cities. According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau projections, 10 cities have populations larger than 1 million. New York City Los Angeles Chicago Houston Phoenix Philadelphia San Antonio … Continue reading “Evangelicals More Likely to Be Found in Fastest-Growing U.S. Cities Than Largest Ones”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}