U.S. church attendance stands at 31%, a full three percentage points down [1] from pre-pandemic levels.
In the four years before the pandemic, 2016 through 2019, an average of 34% of U.S. adults said they had attended church, synagogue, mosque or temple in the past seven days.
From 2020 to the present, the average has been 30%, which includes attending remotely via TV or the internet.
Those attendance levels are about 10 percentage points lower than what Gallup measured in 2012 and most prior years.
Church attendance is down four points among Protestants (from 44% to 40%) and seven points among Catholics (from 37% to 30%), the two largest faith groups in the U.S.