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Black Americans remain overwhelmingly Christian, but the religious landscape is changing.
• 76% identify with a Christian tradition
• 24% are religiously unaffiliated (“Nones”)
Baptists remain the largest religious group at 32% of Black adults.
Teen birth rates, 2000–2024:
Black: 79.2 → 17.7 (↓78%)
Nationwide: 47.7 → 12.6 (↓74%)
Has the public’s picture caught up?
CDC: births per 1,000 females ages 15–19; Black = non-Hispanic.
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About 96% of Black-owned businesses had no paid employees in 2023. Owners and contractors can still earn income.
What may help more owners hire?
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About 1 in 4 Black families had student debt in 2025. Among those with debt, the median balance was $30,000, highest on both measures among the groups shown.
Source: Federal Reserve, 2025 SCF.
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Median family wealth changes, 2022–2025:
🟡 Black: −25.1%
🔵 White: +6.5%
🟢 Hispanic/Latino: +18.1%
All U.S. families: +2.3%
While White and Hispanic median wealth grew, Black median wealth fell by one-quarter.
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Black median wealth fell in four straight survey periods from 2001 to 2013.
It rose 60.5% in 2019–2022, then fell 25.1% in 2022–2025—the second-largest decline between surveys since 1989.
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1/6 🧵 Arizona leads: 34.1% of Black households are married-couple households.
Top 10 among states with 100,000+ Black households. Continue for rankings 11–30. 👇🏾
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5/6 🧵 The final five qualifying states:
Missouri: 21.3%
Pennsylvania: 21.2%
Illinois: 21.1%
Michigan: 20.4%
Wisconsin: 15.9%
All 30 meet the 100,000-household minimum. Definition and source next 👇🏾
6/6 🧵 “Black households” means the householder is Black alone. A spouse may be any race.
These are shares of households, not percentages of Black adults who are married.
Source: 2024 ACS 1-Year, B11001B.
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More than 1 in 3 employed Black women in Minneapolis–St. Paul work in healthcare occupations: 35%, or 31,205 women.
That includes practitioners, technicians and support workers, such as nurses and nursing assistants.
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Source: 2024 ACS 1-Year, Table B24010B. Black Alone, civilian employed women ages 16+.
Includes healthcare practitioner, technical and support occupations. Metros must have more than 40,000 employed Black women. Rankings use unrounded shares, not pay or job openings.
