Trends over time
Since 2016 the poll has captured an annual snapshot of American Muslim experiences in all their diversity, and tracked how they change.
ISPU · Surveying Muslims Since 2016
2025 · Evolving Electorate, Enduring Challenges
LATEST EDITION PUBLISHED
After the 2024 presidential election, ISPU fielded its seventh American Muslim Poll with NORC at the University of Chicago. It examines how Muslims voted, their policy priorities, their experiences with discrimination, and how their views compare with Americans of other faiths and no faith.
What is AMP?
The American Muslim Poll is ISPU's nationally representative survey of American Muslims. Each edition offers the latest trends and demographic data on Muslim communities, from voting and civic engagement to faith, identity, and experiences with discrimination.
Muslims are surveyed not as isolated specimens, but within the context of the country's faith landscape. That lets readers see American Muslims' views alongside those of the rest of the nation.
Since 2016 the poll has captured an annual snapshot of American Muslim experiences in all their diversity, and tracked how they change.
Comparing Muslims with other faith groups and the general public puts every finding in context, instead of treating the community in isolation.
ISPU's National Islamophobia Index measures how much the public endorses anti-Muslim tropes. It was measured for the fifth time in 2025.
Researchers, policymakers, journalists, and the public use the data, and each edition ends with data-driven recommendations.
Over the last half-decade, these studies have served both to educate the wider society on their Muslim neighbors and to inform Muslims themselves about their strengths and struggles.
— American Muslim Poll: Fifth Anniversary Collection, 2020
The Reports
Latest ReportSeventh edition · 2025
Published August 2022
A snapshot of American Muslims and Americans of other faiths and no faith, two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Explore findingsPublished October 1, 2020
Fielded in the first weeks of the COVID-19 shutdown, with five years of Muslim civic engagement trends.
Explore findingsPublished April 29, 2019
Compares attitudes across faith groups after record midterm turnout and the travel ban ruling.
Explore findingsPublished April 30, 2018
Attitudes and policy preferences across faith communities, one year into the Trump presidency.
Explore findingsPublished March 21, 2017
A community at the center of heated social and political debates after a divisive election.
Explore findingsPublished March 15, 2016
Muslims as participants, not only subjects, in the 2016 presidential election.
Explore findingsLatest Findings · 2025
Muslims remain the only religious group in the U.S. with no majority racial or ethnic group: 28% are Black, 24% Asian, 20% white, 12% Arab, and 9% Hispanic.
Race / ethnicity by faith group (%)
58% of Muslims are Democrats or lean Democrat, compared with 40% of the general public. One in four (24%) identify as Independent.
Party affiliation by faith group (%)
63% of Muslims faced religious discrimination in the past year, the most of any group. That share has held at around 60% in every poll since 2016, regardless of who was in the White House.
Muslims reporting any religious discrimination in the past year (%)
Roughly one quarter of American Muslims (26%) are between the ages of 18 and 24, more than double the share of the general public (10%).
Respondents aged 18–24 (%)
More than one in five Muslims (22%) rate their mental health as "fair" or "poor," compared with 18% of the general public, 13% of Protestants, and 9% of white Evangelicals.
Rate their mental health as "fair" or "poor" (%)
Islamophobia Index
Since 2018, ISPU's American Muslim Poll has included the National American Islamophobia Index, measured across American faith and non-faith groups. Created by ISPU scholars with Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative, it measures how much the public endorses five negative stereotypes about Muslims, as a single score from 0 to 100 that is easy to compare and track over time.
The five measures
The general public scored 33, the highest since the index began in 2018.
Islamophobia Index scores, 2018–2025 (0–100)
Research by Topic
Explore a series of additional analyses built on American Muslim Poll data, grouped by theme.
Exploring who American Muslims are, from nativity to their experiences with racism and Islamophobia.
Examining how Muslims vote, what motivates them, and the policies they care about most.
Where Muslims stand on today’s issues, from vaccines and climate change to banking and philanthropy.
Examining issues that impact Muslim families, from aging adults to care for children.
Looking at how American Muslims marry, partner and separate, including across faith and race.
Examining faith and identity, from converts and interfaith work to internalized Islamophobia.
Testimonials
Media Coverage
National and local newsrooms rely on the research from ISPU's American Muslim Poll to ground their reporting
CJR's United States Project on why ISPU's data matters for newsrooms.
Overview
When ISPU began the poll in 2016, it knew the survey had to include Americans of other faiths and no faith, not only Muslims. That way readers understand American Muslims' perspective within the context of their nation's faith landscape.
Seven editions later, the American Muslim Poll gives researchers, policymakers, and the public a rare way to compare trend data over time.
Amid a heated election season, Muslims were surveyed alongside Jews, Protestants, and Catholics. The poll found a community that is both pious and patriotic.
A timely look at American Muslims after a deeply divisive presidential election, narrowing the knowledge gap about their attitudes and behaviors.
The first measurement of the National Islamophobia Index. It showed that anti-Muslim sentiment is linked to approval of violence, authoritarianism, and discriminatory policies.
The second Islamophobia Index, plus a set of data-driven recommendations for the public, policymakers, and researchers.
Fielded in the first weeks of the COVID-19 shutdown. It tracked five years of civic engagement trends and was published alongside the Fifth Anniversary Collection.
An updated demographic profile with new markers, including military service and jobs created. Its study of Islamophobia and bullying expanded to online spaces.
The seventh poll, fielded by NORC at the University of Chicago after the 2024 election. It includes the fifth Islamophobia Index.
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