Church Health statistics

184 sourced statistics on church health for U.S. church leaders, newest first, from Lifeway Research, Barna Group and other published research.

2026

• Areas where rural congregations have people who lead or help significantly Lifeway Research
• Churchgoers' satisfaction with their church's amount of liturgical style Lifeway Research
• Disability-related modifications churches made in the past year Lifeway Research
• Effect of the current economy on churches, as seen by pastors Lifeway Research
• How churches care for people with disabilities and their families Lifeway Research
• How liturgical churchgoers say their church's style is Lifeway Research
• How liturgical churchgoers say their church's style is Lifeway Research
• How often pastors preach on racial reconciliation Lifeway Research
• Pastors who agree every church should strive for racial diversity Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say a person with a disability would feel welcomed at their church Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say their church is predominantly one racial or ethnic group Lifeway Research
• Pastors whose church experienced significant conflict this past year Lifeway Research
• Pastors with first-generation immigrants in their church Lifeway Research
• Rural pastors who view much of their community as Christian in name only Lifeway Research
• Share of church budget spent on personnel in Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research

2025

• Americans who rate clergy honesty and ethics as high or very high Lifeway Research
• Change in median congregation size since 2000 Leader Insights
• Christmas activities pastors plan Lifeway Research
• Churches growing 5% or more Faith Communities Today 2020
• Churches that experienced significant conflict in the past year Lifeway Research
• Churches that lovingly and biblically confront unconfessed sin Lifeway Research
• Churches with a lay counseling ministry Lifeway Research
• Churches with fewer than 100 attending Faith Communities Today 2020
• Confidence in the church or organized religion Lifeway Research
• Congregations' rating of their current financial health Lifeway Research
• Direction of U.S. Protestant church attendance over the previous two years Lifeway Research
• How recently churches have formally disciplined a member Lifeway Research
• Largest church expenditures Lifeway Research
• Median attendance by tradition Faith Communities Today 2020
• Median attendance recovery since 2020 Leader Insights
• Median weekly worship attendance Faith Communities Today 2020
• Pastors' belief that their church will still exist in 10 years Lifeway Research
• Protestant church starts vs. closures Lifeway Research
• Share of Protestant churches by typical weekend attendance Lifeway Research
• Southern Baptist affiliated congregations Lifeway Research
• Vitality after the pandemic Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations
• What rural pastors consider a ministry success Lifeway Research
• Where the people are Faith Communities Today 2020
• Who is responsible for administering formal church discipline Lifeway Research

2024

• Abuse prevention practices in Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research
• Adults who place faith in God at the top of their priority list Barna Group
• Church leaders confident their church is on a future-focused path Barna Group
• Church switchers who left because they were unhappy with their previous church Lifeway Research
• Church switchers who stopped attending before finding their current church Lifeway Research
• Complaints of churchgoers who left their church disenchanted Lifeway Research
• Era churchgoers feel their church's ministry belongs in Lifeway Research
• How church switchers say their current church compares to their previous church Lifeway Research
• How churchgoers say their current church compares to their previous one Lifeway Research
• Members of Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say their church has an intentional leader-development process Lifeway Research
• Pastors' view of church strength compared to before the pandemic Lifeway Research
• Positive or no economic impact on churches Lifeway Research
• Protestant churches giving a live human response to phone calls, by region Barna Group
• Regular Protestant churchgoers who are members of their church Lifeway Research
• Regular churchgoers who have attended more than one church as an adult Lifeway Research
• Southern Baptist churches conducting background checks on volunteers and staff Lifeway Research
• Southern Baptist congregations that use background checks, by worship attendance Lifeway Research
• Tone of conversation most often heard at churchgoers' congregations Lifeway Research
• Unmet needs behind switching churches Lifeway Research
• Why churchgoers are not church members Lifeway Research
• Why churchgoers felt out of place at their previous church Lifeway Research
• Worship service language offerings in Hispanic churches Lifeway Research

2023

• American adults' views on faith and church Barna Group
• Americans with a favorable view of denominational groups' churches Lifeway Research
• Attenders completely satisfied with their church, house vs. conventional Barna Group
• Christmas activities churchgoers say they greatly enjoy Lifeway Research
• Christmas events Protestant churches plan to offer Lifeway Research
• Churches associated with the Southern Baptist Convention Lifeway Research
• Churches with some type of security measure in place when they gather for worship Lifeway Research
• Churchgoers who say their church needs to become more ethnically diverse Lifeway Research
• Community setting of Southern Baptist churches Lifeway Research
• Congregation members who volunteer regularly Lifeway Research
• Congregations pleased with the direction of the SBC Lifeway Research
• Female churchgoers who agree with positive statements about their church Lifeway Research
• Generation of Hispanic Protestant churches Lifeway Research
• Health indicators of Hispanic congregations Lifeway Research
• Importance of Cooperative Program objectives to Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research
• Pastors on the current economy's impact on their church Lifeway Research
• Reasons church switchers left their previous church Lifeway Research
• Say their church has no program to help people struggling with porn Barna Group
• Security measures churches have in place when they gather for worship Lifeway Research
• Southern Baptist churches by average weekly worship attendance Lifeway Research
• Southern Baptist congregations reporting at least one item to the ACP Lifeway Research
• Southern Baptist congregations with a positive view of the Cooperative Program Lifeway Research
• Southern Baptist congregations with abuse prevention practices Lifeway Research
• Total membership of Southern Baptist-affiliated congregations Lifeway Research
• Where Christians say they most often experience unity Barna Group
• Where Southern Baptist churches are located by region Lifeway Research

2022

• Emotions Americans feel when sitting in a church building Barna Group
• Impact of the current economy on their church Lifeway Research
• In-person church activities Christians find most meaningful Barna Group
• Pastors who see growing fear about the future in their congregations, by denomination Lifeway Research
• Pastors' view of the current economy's effect on their churches Lifeway Research
• Protestant churches by weekly attendance size Lifeway Research
• Say a pastor has been the most influential to their spiritual journey, by generation Barna Group
• Southern Baptist congregations no longer connected in 2022 Lifeway Research
• Total membership of Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research
• What happened to disbanded Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research
• Where Southern Baptist churches are located by region Lifeway Research

2021

• Baptisms reported by Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research
• Change in weekly worship attendance over the last five years Lifeway Research
• Churches that are predominantly one racial or ethnic group Lifeway Research
• Churches with someone in the congregation diagnosed with COVID-19 Lifeway Research
• Churchgoers proud of how their church responded to the pandemic Lifeway Research
• Membership in Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research
• Pastors who consider it vital to be part of a denomination Lifeway Research
• Pastors who expect denominational identity to diminish in importance over 10 years Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say an attendee has been diagnosed with COVID-19 Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say every church should strive for racial diversity Lifeway Research

2020

• Americans who qualify as practicing Christians Barna Group
• Americans' confidence in U.S. institutions Lifeway Research
• Areas of concern for pastors about their church Lifeway Research
• Churchgoers who say their church is better prepared to protect children from abuse Lifeway Research
• Disaster risks pastors say could affect their congregation Lifeway Research
• Health and safety precautions churches meeting indoors took Lifeway Research
• How long pastors expect it to take churches to regain health after COVID-19 restrictions Barna Group
• How much bigger a share of churchgoers large churches host Leader Insights
• How pastors expect congregants' personal faith to change amid the crisis Barna Group
• Long-term shifts churches made because of COVID-19 Lifeway Research
• Major concerns pastors see facing the U.S. church Lifeway Research
• Megachurches that say they are multiracial Lifeway Research
• Most influential factor in pastors' church re-entry decisions Barna Group
• Precautions Protestant churches took when holding in-person services Lifeway Research
• Precautions planned by churches that will meet with safeguards Barna Group
• Status of church facilities during COVID-19 Barna Group
• When pastors expect to host a service in their usual building Barna Group
• Why churches do not plan for disasters Lifeway Research

2019

• Churches with some type of security measure in place for worship Lifeway Research
• Churchgoers who say their church is a safe place for children and teenagers Lifeway Research
• Churchgoers who say their church is a safe place where adults are protected from sexual assault Lifeway Research
• How churchgoers say their church would respond to a sexual abuse survivor Lifeway Research
• How young adults describe the church members of their teen church Lifeway Research
• Pastors' view of the economy's impact on their church Lifeway Research
• Security measures in place when churches gather for worship Lifeway Research
• Southern Baptist Convention total membership Lifeway Research

2018

• Americans who say churches aren't responding well to sexual assault Lifeway Research
• Baptisms reported by Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research
• Churches made up predominantly of one racial group Lifeway Research
• Churches that disciplined a member in the last year Lifeway Research
• Churches that have disciplined a member in the last year Lifeway Research
• Churchgoers who have thought about going to another church Lifeway Research
• Congregations with worship services in multiple locations Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say every church should try for racial diversity Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say staff sexually harassed a congregation member Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say their church disciplined a member in the past year, by denomination Lifeway Research
• Protestant pastors who say every church should strive for racial diversity Lifeway Research
• Religious identity of American adults Barna Group
• Say churches have not responded well to sexual assault, by group Lifeway Research
• Wednesday night activities at Protestant churches Lifeway Research
• What is a regular part of worship service music Lifeway Research
• Who is responsible for church discipline Lifeway Research
• Who is solely responsible for church discipline Lifeway Research

2017

• American churches that say they are thriving Lifeway Research
• American megachurches located in the South Lifeway Research
• Church resources for victims of domestic abuse Lifeway Research
• Churches cooperating with the Southern Baptist Convention Lifeway Research
• Churches with a plan to assist victims of domestic abuse Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say every church should strive for racial diversity Lifeway Research
• Pastors who say their church is mostly one racial group Lifeway Research
• Pastors who strongly agree a domestic violence victim would find their church a safe haven Lifeway Research
• People baptized in Southern Baptist congregations Lifeway Research
• Theological orientation of American megachurches Lifeway Research

2016

• Pastors on July Fourth worship services Lifeway Research

2014

• Americans who have regularly attended a house of worship where they were a minority Lifeway Research
• Churchgoers who say their church has done enough to become racially diverse Lifeway Research

2012

• Churches not offering VBS because of lack of time Barna Group
• Churches that offered Vacation Bible School Barna Group

2011

• Adults who volunteer at a church in a typical week Barna Group
• Pastors' views on denominational affiliation Lifeway Research

2010

• Multi-ethnic Protestant churches Lifeway Research

2009

• Church finances over the last two months Barna Group
• Church leaders who made no ministry changes due to the economy Barna Group
• Churches that made no ministry changes because of the economy Barna Group
• Economy's impact on churches over the last year, as reported by leaders Barna Group
• How the economy affected churches over the last year Barna Group

2008

• How churches responded to the financial downturn Barna Group
• Share of American adults who associate with a mainline church Barna Group

2006

• Adults who meet the born again criteria Barna Group
• Life-situation reasons formerly churched adults stopped attending church Lifeway Research
• Said faith is meant to be developed mainly through a local church Barna Group

2005

• Ministry emphases pastors list as top priorities Barna Group

2004

• Average sermon length by denomination Lifeway Research
• Protestant churches offering a Sunday school with planned Bible instruction Barna Group
• Senior pastors who say Sunday school is their church's highest priority Barna Group