U.S. church attendance has shown a small but noticeable decline compared with what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 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%, including a 31% reading in a May 1-24 survey.