Interesting stuff:

 

http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/religion.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

tee hee, quakers

Absolutely fascinating to me.  It would be really interesting to see how ethnic immigration patterns relate to these different congregations' distribution. It would also be interesting to see the distribution of atheists/agnostics/deists and also Buddhists, Hindus, and other non-Middle East religions.  I read once that Seattle is the most non-theistic city in the nation.

 

I had no idea that the Baptists' territory would be that stark, even though I knew they are huge in the South.  It's really easy to see where the old South was, and how it just "cuts off" at a political line.  Interesting to see that Missourah is a part of the Baptist nation as well, not to mention Oklahoma and West Texas, which I didn't think would be.

 

I was also pleased to see that Cuyahoga County has a relatively moderate amount of most of the religions, with no one religion dominating.  I think that creates so much more of an open and tolerant atmosphere.

Great find!  I'm going to have to download all these maps.  This kind of information is sometimes hard to come by because unlike nearly every other demographic attribute, you can't get it from the census.

Very interesting data. I didn't realize Catholics had such a presense in this area. I had to bookmark the link, the fact that the different Lutheran synods are provided will surely come in handy for me sometime.

Pretty maps, but what about None of the Above?

Oy vey!

Pretty maps, but what about None of the Above?

 

The top map has "Other" and this map covers religious vs non religious

 

(Looking at Southern Ohio on that last map)

I guess the old marines in Mrs. Schmidt's district cut and run from church.

Did anyone take notice of the Muslim map?  There are like 7 or 8 counties shaded in with 2.2 - 10.6 percent (the highest amount the legend goes up to).  And wouldn't you know an Ohio county is one of those 7 or 8!

 

Cuyahoga? No

Lucas? No

Franklin? No

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wood?  Yes.  That is very interesting to me; I wonder why this primarily agricultural county of less than 150,000 people bordering the Toledo metro area is home to one of the highest Muslim populations per capita per county in the country?  Could BGSU have something to do with it?  I find that interesting! :)

There are a lot of small towns/counties with large universities, so I'm surprised there aren't more counties showing up in the muslim catagory (assuming that BGSU is the reason Wood county has a high Muslim percentage).  Any maps for Hindu?

 

 

In regards to the Religious vs. Non-religious map....I always knew that Ann Arbor was godless!

I'll bet C-Dawg can probably explain the Muslim percentage in Wood County.

Well, Perrysburg's Mosque IS in Wood County...

Wow, Cincy is Catholic central!  And Cleveland, we're bucking the trend here in Columbus.  Must be all the government workers, they are jaded and have given up faith in anything.