The United Church of Christ - A Demographic Snapshot

Barack Obama's speech this week on race in America addressed controversial comments by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. The Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Landscape Survey offers demographic information on members of the United Church of Christ (UCC). Key findings include:

The UCC is classified as a mainline Protestant denomination in the Congregationalist family whose members make up 0.5% of the U.S. adult population.

While Obama's congregation in Chicago is predominantly black, the UCC denomination overall is 91% white.

61% of UCC members are female.

41% of UCC members live in the Northeast region of the U.S.

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