The 15 least religious cities in the United States

From Portland to Boston, many people are not religiously affiliated.

In some of the United States' largest cities, a considerable amount of people identify themselves as unaffiliated with a religion, despite the fact that the country is a majority Christian nation. The Huffington Post ranked cities with the least number of people belonging to different religions from the data and findings of the American Values Atlas. Here are fifteen of them.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - First is the city of Portland in Oregon with 42 percent of its residents religiously unaffiliated, followed by 33 percent each from both populations of San Francisco and Seattle. Denver came in next with 32 percent and Phoenix with 26 percent of its total residents.

In Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, 25 percent of the population identified themselves as not belonging to any religion, while there are 24 percent of the same category in cities of Columbus in Ohio, Detroit, Boston, and Los Angeles. They were only a percent ahead of Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Washington D.C. - all with 23 percent each.

St. Louis is also in the ranking with 22 percent of its people not adhering into a particular church.

The ranking published by the outlet came days after Baylor University's research found that the nature's "beautiful landscape and good weather" are becoming some people's source of a sense of divinity. The trend follows the theory that these people are less attached to any organized or traditional church, while it does not directly result into the cultivation of the church of nature.

In the study, published by the Pew Research Center months ago, there was a decline among Americans identifying themselves as a member of any particular religion, while the country still has a majority of people identifying themselves as Christians. Only 3 percent of the U.S. population claim they are atheists, states another research.

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