About One-in-Six Americans Are Baptist

Two of the largest Baptist denominations in the United States -- the Southern Baptist Convention and the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. -- will hold national meetings in late June. The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, finds that Baptists represent the largest Protestant denominational family in the U.S., making up about one-sixth (17.2%) of the total U.S. adult population.

_{Data from the Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted May 8 to Aug. 13, 2007, among 35,556 American adults; released in 2008. Due to rounding, nested figures may not add to the subtotal indicated.}