Because the federal Census Bureau is unable to collect comprehensive data on religion (due to issues of separation of Church and State), accurate data on religion is hard to come by. Estimates provided by the Association of Religion Data Archives (website) show that approximately 1,552,336 Brooklyn residents are adherents of a religion, in approximately these ratios:
◦ Catholic: 58.8%
◦ Protestant: 12%
◦ Orthodox: 0.72%
◦ Jewish: 24.4%
Muslim: 3.73%
Below is a more specific map of the Greenpoint-Williamsburg county.
| Statistics | Kings County, New York | |||||||||
| TR:T2. Major Traditions | ||||||||||
| Congregations | Member Count | % of Total Population That Are Members | Average Membership Per Congregation | % of Congregations Reporting Membership | Average Attendance Per Congregation | % of Congregations Reporting Attendance | ||||
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Total:
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1,656 | 452,923 | 17.8% | 296 | 92% | 351 | 34% | |||
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Evangelical Protestant
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680 | 41.1% | 120,655 | 26.6% | 4.8% | 194 | 91% | 245 | 34% | |
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Mainline Protestant
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164 | 9.9% | 44,889 | 9.9% | 1.8% | 275 | 99% | 212 | 57% | |
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Historically Black Protestant
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100 | 6.0% | 32,800 | 7.2% | 1.3% | 364 | 90% | 375 | 29% | |
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Roman Catholic
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136 | 8.2% | 140,820 | 31.1% | 5.5% | 1,091 | 95% | 900 | 63% | |
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Jewish Congregations
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188 | 11.4% | 22,434 | 5.0% | 0.9% | 134 | 89% | 139 | 36% | |
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Latter-day Saint (Mormon)
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9 | 0.5% | 1,300 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 144 | 100% | 100 | 11% | |
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Islamic
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6 | 0.4% | 2,900 | 0.6% | 0.1% | 580 | 83% | 700 | 50% | |
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Hindu
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1 | 0.1% | 150 | 0% | 0.0% | 150 | 100% | 0% | ||
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Buddhist
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0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0.0% | |||||
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Orthodox Christian
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14 | 0.9% | 5,723 | 1.3% | 0.2% | 476 | 86% | 376 | 79% | |
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Jehovah’s Witnesses
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29 | 1.8% | 8,300 | 1.8% | 0.3% | 319 | 90% | 0% | ||
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Other
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329 | 19.9% | 57,157 | 12.6% | 2.3% | 187 | 93% | 424 | 14% | |
| FG:T2. Major Families | ||||||||||
| Congregations | Member Count | % of Total Population That Are Members | Average Membership Per Congregation | % of Congregations Reporting Membership | Average Attendance Per Congregation | % of Congregations Reporting Attendance | ||||
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Total:
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1,656 | 452,923 | 17.8% | 296 | 92% | 351 | 34% | |||
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Adventist
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65 | 3.9% | 13,613 | 3.0% | 0.5% | 234 | 89% | 276 | 26% | |
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Baptist
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204 | 12.3% | 67,884 | 15.0% | 2.7% | 353 | 94% | 353 | 38% | |
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Brethren
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2 | 0.1% | 328 | 0.1% | 0.0% | 164 | 100% | 85 | 50% | |
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Catholic
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139 | 8.4% | 141,240 | 31.2% | 5.6% | 1,070 | 95% | 890 | 62% | |
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Christian/Church of Christ
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45 | 2.7% | 5,343 | 1.2% | 0.2% | 127 | 93% | 125 | 31% | |
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Anglican
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32 | 1.9% | 10,394 | 2.3% | 0.4% | 324 | 100% | 254 | 66% | |
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Evangelical Misc
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96 | 5.8% | 22,701 | 5.0% | 0.9% | 270 | 88% | 416 | 49% | |
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Holiness
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43 | 2.6% | 7,552 | 1.7% | 0.3% | 198 | 88% | 239 | 40% | |
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Independent Fundamentalist
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5 | 0.3% | 613 | 0.1% | 0.0% | 153 | 80% | 151 | 40% | |
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Jewish
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188 | 11.4% | 38,229 | 8.4% | 1.5% | 228 | 89% | 139 | 36% | |
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Latter-day Saints
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9 | 0.5% | 1,300 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 144 | 100% | 100 | 11% | |
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Lutheran
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41 | 2.5% | 8,321 | 1.8% | 0.3% | 202 | 100% | 61 | 63% | |
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Mennonite
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7 | 0.4% | 1,057 | 0.2% | 0.0% | 151 | 100% | 106 | 71% | |
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Metaphysical
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9 | 0.5% | 1,120 | 0.3% | 0.0% | 124 | 100% | 10 | 11% | |
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Methodist
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42 | 2.5% | 13,667 | 3.0% | 0.5% | 350 | 93% | 220 | 45% | |
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Misc/Classified
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280 | 16.9% | 47,400 | 10.5% | 1.9% | 181 | 93% | 343 | 3% | |
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Orthodox
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14 | 0.9% | 5,723 | 1.3% | 0.2% | 476 | 86% | 376 | 79% | |
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Pentecostal
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372 | 22.5% | 57,608 | 12.7% | 2.3% | 171 | 90% | 281 | 31% | |
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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63 | 3.8% | 8,830 | 2.0% | 0.3% | 142 | 98% | 125 | 44% | |
For documentation and detailed source information click on a table title.
All percents are taken against table universe which is the first row in each table.
Sources & Notes
Religion 2009 (InfoGroup) DocumentationData Dictionary
“TR” prefixed tables: Religions by Tradition (TR), Religion 2009 (InfoGroup), Data collected by InfoGroup, organized by the ARDA, tabulated and processed by Social Explorer..
“FG” prefixed tables: Religions by Family Group (FG), Religion 2009 (InfoGroup), Data collected by InfoGroup, organized by the ARDA, tabulated and processed by Social Explorer..
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