VITALS
The Church Gap
Though roughly 13 million (40%) Canadians are Catholic and 9 million (27%) are Protestant, only 26% of Canadians attend a religious institution once a week, only 63% of Canadians agree that life is made better by faith and some 82% of Canadians have no problem with atheists running their country. About 5 million (15%) Canadians claim no religious affiliation at all.
Source: The Vancouver Sun (
vancouversun.com), Statistics Canada (
statcan.gc.ca)
CATHOLIC
40%
PROTESTANT
27%
NO AFFILIATION
15%
CHURCH WEEKLY
26%
SAY LIFE IS BETTER BY FAITH
63%
NO PROBLEM WITH ATHEIST LEADERSHIP
82%
Gains and Losses
Many large metropolitan areas saw big population swings in the last decade. Here are the biggest gaining and losing metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more from 2000-2010.
BIGGEST GAINERS
1 LAS VEGAS
1,951,269 (2010 population)
41.8%
2 RALEIGH, NC
1,130,490
41.8%
3 FT. MEYERS, FL
618,754
40.3%
4 PROVO, UT
526,810
39.8%
5 AUSTIN, TX
1,716,289
37.3%
BIGGEST LOSERS
1 NEW ORLEANS
1,167,764 (2010 population)
-11.3%
2 YOUNGSTOWN, OH
565,773
-6.2%
3 DETROIT
4,296,250
-3.5%
4 CLEVELAND
2,077,240
-3.3%
5 PITTSBURGH
2,356,285
-3.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau; William H. Frey, Brookings Institute
In The News
Mainstream media devoted more attention and coverage to religion in the year 2010 than any year prior. The amount of stories centered on faith and religion doubled from 2009 to 2010. Islam dominated this trend with 40% of all media coverage focused on events related to the religion. This is the first time since 2007 that either the Catholic Church or religion’s role in American politics did not take the number one spot in religious media coverage.
Source: Pew Research Center, February 24, 2011
8 Summer 2011 •
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