Gallup found that the top 10 “very religious” cities in America were as follows:
Metropolitan Area % Very Religious
Provo-Orem, UT 77
Montgomery, AL 64
Jackson, MS 64
Birmingham-Hoover, AL 56
Huntsville, AL 55
Holland-Grand Haven, MI 55
Greenville-Mauldin-Easley, SC 55
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC 55
Ogden-Clearfield, UT 55
Little Rock-N Little Rock
-Conway, AR 54
Baton Rouge, LA 54
Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC 54
For the 10 states listed above, nine were won by Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 election; Barack Obama won only one: Michigan.
The top 10 cities with the least religious number of people, according to Gallup, were as follows:
Metropolitan Area % Very Religious
Burlington-South Burlington, VT 17
Boulder, CO 17
Manchester-Nashua, NH 22
Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, ME 22
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA 23
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 24
Eugene-Springfield, OR 24
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH 25
Bremerton-Silverdale, WA 26
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 26
Springfield, MA 26
Madison, WI 26
All 10 states represented above were won by Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.