Houston's Houses of Worship
City of Faith(s): Religion in Houston by the Numbers
Breaking down the city's Baptists and Buddhists, infographic-style.
Of the 6,220,000 people in the Greater Houston metro area, over 4.9 million—or 80 percent—identify as actively religious.
Did You Know?
- 67 percent of Houstonians "absolutely" believe in God
- 76 percent believe in heaven
- 65 percent believe in hell
- 42 percent attend a religious service at least once a week
- 59 percent pray daily
How Houston Stacks Up in Number of Congregations per Capita
Our city has the second-largest number of Baptist congregations per person in the U.S., but that's not all...
- Pentecostal: No. 2
- Sikh: No. 3
- Zoroastrian: No. 3
- Church of Christ: No. 3
- Assembly of God: No. 4
- Muslim: No. 5
- Non-denominational Christian: No. 5
- Jehovah's Witness: No. 7
- Hindu: No. 8
- Buddhist: No. 9
- Jain: No. 13
- Friends: No. 13
- Catholic: No. 15
- Jewish: No. 17
- Baha'i: No. 18
- Greek Orthodox: No. 20
