Mormon Population - Mormonism, The Mormon Church, Beliefs, & Religion - MormonWiki Jump to: navigation , search The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has over 15 million members (as of 2013), with more than half of those members living outside the United States. Wards (the name for a congregation) and branches (similar to wards but smaller) of the Church can be found in over 162 countries. Countries with the highest percentage of LDS members are the United States, the countries of Latin America, the Philippines, Canada, England, American Samoa, Tonga, and Western Samoa. The Church has minimal presence in China (though it does have fairly good population in Hong Kong as well as a temple there), the Middle-East, and Cuba. The Church is growing fastest in Africa, Latin America, and east Asia. Within the United States in Utah about sixty percent of the population are members. That puts the state population of Saints at just over 1.5 million members. In Idaho, fourteen percent of the population are LDS; in Nevada, nine percent; Arizona, six percent; Oregon, four percent; and the rest of the states are at about three percent.

Church membership doubles approximately every fifteen years, due mostly to increased missionary efforts . In the last ten years the number of missionaries has gone up by fifty percent. There are currently over 80,000 missionaries in 162 countries (2013), and in the year 2000 alone five million copies of the Book of Mormon were handed out. 2009 Church growth in the U.S. was under 2%, but this still put the LDS Church in third place among only four religions reporting growth. The LDS Church is now the fourth largest church in the United States. Worldwide, there are nearly 300,000 converts a year plus growth through members having families. Growth of the Church outside of the United States is amazing. For example, Missionaries were not allowed into Nigeria until 1978, by 1980 there were 1,700 members in Nigeria and by 1995 there were 28,000 members. In line with the fact that about half of its members are now outside of the United States, about half speak English as a primary language.

Spanish speaking members have reached a total of 3,226,000, and 780,000 members speak Portuguese. Another 1,311,000 speak a language other than English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Because of the massive growth the Church is experiencing in non-English speaking countries, the Church curriculum is now printed in dozens of languages. The huge growth of the Church means that meetinghouses and temples are needed in more places. As of 2004 there were 20,000 meetinghouses in use. As of October 2010, over 140 temples were in use, with others either under construction or announced. Rodney Stark, a sociologist of religion, estimates that the LDS Church could easily have between 60 to 265 million members by the year 2080. Latter-day Saints (LDS) / Mormon Statistics / Church of Jesus Christ Statistics Top 10 U.S.

States with Highest Proportion of Latter-day Saints in the Population, 1990 Note: Data from this and following tables come from the 1990 Glenmary Research Institute study of county-by-county membership data from 130 U.S. denominations. The data was based on organizational reporting. Adherents.com has correlated these data with results from the 1990 Kosmin/NSRI (National Survey of Religious Identification) study (nationwide, phone survey-based; sample size: 113,000). For Latter-day Saint statistics, the match between the two data sets is very close: In exactly one half of the states, the Kosmin (self-identification) figure was slightly higher than the Glenmary (organizational reporting) figure; in the other half the Glenmary figure was slightly higher. The implication of this correlation is that in the United States, the overwhelming majority of people who consider themselves Latter-day Saints are officially counted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, just as the majority of people counted by the Church of Jesus Christ consider themselves to be Latter-day Saints. This is not necessarily typical for all religious groups.

In other Kosmin-Glenmary correlations, many religious groups had considerably more self-identified members than the organization claimed (indicating a large percentage of nominal-only "adherents"). Some religious groups had considerably less (indicating over-reporting or high levels of disaffiliation). Sociologists are warned that these findings cannot necessarily be extrapolated beyond the U.S. setting. State 1.52 States in this list: Utah, California, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Washington, Hawaii. A bit of trivia: In 1990 the "least Latter-day Saint" state in the country was Rhode Island. Rhode Island had the smallest number of Latter-day Saints of any state (1,438), the smallest number of congregations (5), and the smallest proportion of Latter-day Saints in the population (0.14%), or about 1 member for every 714 people. Still, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the 11th largest Christian denomination in the state, according to the Glenmary data, and Miss Rhode Island of 1999 , Karen Lindsay, is a Latter-day Saint.

Source of County and State Statistics: Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center, P.O. Box 507, Mars Hill, NC 28754. Principle investigator: Church Growth Research Center, Church of the Nazarene, Kansas City, MO. This data source was obtained from the American Religion Data Archive. Latter-day Saints as a percentage of state populations. Click here or on map to see a larger version. Temple Geography Links Some web pages about Latter-day Saint Temple geography (temples offer a unusually manageable subject for detailed geographic analysis, as they are relatively few in number, and complete lists are readily available.): The historic Salt Lake Temple George Frey/Getty Images Utah, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is headquartered, is the state everyone associates with Mormonism. But Mormons didn’t arrive in the Beehive state until 1847, nearly 20 years after Joseph Smith, a native of Vermont, began attracting followers to his fledgling religious movement, which he founded in western New York State.

After Smith was assassinated in Illinois in 1844, another Vermonter, Brigham Young, led the Mormons across the plains to a place far from the hostility of non-Mormons—and beyond the reach of the U.S. government, which outlawed polygamy, a practice Smith instituted in the late 1830s (and which the church foreswore in 1890, allowing Utah to become a state). On the map below, you can see for yourself where Mormons have settled in the intervening centuries. Zoom in and out to dig into the county data, and click to drag the map around for better viewing. As the map makes clear, Utah remains the home base of the church—and Mormons have migrated from their initial settlement in the Salt Lake Valley to towns and cities across the Mountain West. As soon as you cross east into the Great Plains, though, you become much less likely to bump into a Latter-day Saint—indeed, you’d have better luck heading all the way back to the more densely populated parts of New England, where Smith and Young many of the other early Mormons were born. Still, across the map you’ll see smaller dots where a community of Mormons has established itself.

Scroll over Liberty County, Fla., for instance, and you’ll see the Mormon population suddenly jump over 10 percent—that’s mostly because of one man, James Edwin Schuler . Just as the map as a whole quickly tells the larger story of Mormon settlement, so these small dots reflect local stories of Mormons scattered far from Zion. Top 10 states with the most Mormons - UtahValley360 Top 10 states with the most Mormons July 13th, 2015| 42 comments (Chart by Natalie Rosenlof) If you’re like most people, you’d probably guess that Utah has a higher percentage of LDS people than any other state. And you’d be right. But members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints live all over the world and across the United States. Here are the top 10 states with the highest populations of Mormons (as a percentage of the overall population). ( All numbers based on numbers from the Pew Research Center and Mormon Newsroom.) 1.

Utah — 55 percent Total Church Membership: 2,000,554 Missions: 9 (There are now 10 missions in Utah with the addition of the Orem Utah Mission.) Congregations: 4,971 Temples: 16 dedicated, 1 under construction 2. Idaho — 19 percent Temples: 0 dedicated, 1 under construction 4. Arizona — 5 percent Congregations: 549 Temples: 3 Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Maine; New Mexico; Virginia and West Virginia all claim 2 percent of their total populations as LDS. All other U.S. states have LDS populations of less than 2 percent. Related Stories (0) Breanna Olaveson Breanna Olaveson worked in the magazine industry before taking her writing from full-time to nap time with the birth of her first daughter. Her work has appeared in the Ensign, Liahona and New Era magazines, as well as Utah Valley Magazine, Utah Valley BusinessQ, Utah Valley Bride and the Provo Daily Herald. She lives in Utah county with her husband and three children.

She blogs at 42 Responses to "Top 10 states with the most Mormons" AnnieB August 27, 2016 at 9:57 pm I have lived in the South and California most all of my life and worked in Hawaii and the Caribbean. The Mormon people have been some of my best friends and are my neighbors and co-workers. They want to serve their country (military) and their God, fun at sports, fun to can food with and interesting to go to church with. I don’t care where they live…I love them. The more, the merrier. July 14, 2015 at 12:35 pm The title to your article should be changed. I totally agree with the previous comment. Other than Utah, California has the largest number of LDS members, missions, stakes, and wards. Other than Utah it also produces the largest amount of financial contributions in the form of tithes and offerings than any other state. August 19, 2015 at 11:14 am The percentages on several states needs to be corrected.

California, not listed in the 2% category, has at least 2% of its population as members. The following states which were listed in the 2% category should not have been listed as such, because they each have no more than 1% of their populations as members: Maine, Virginia, and West Virginia, plus, Washington, D.C., which has less than one-half of one percent of its population as members. All these figures are from the Deseret News Church Almanac. According to official LDS figures there are 773,762 Mormons in California (1/8/17). On 1/8/17, the U.S. Census Bureau lists California’s estimated population as 39,250,017. 773,762 ÷ 39,250,017 = 1.97% July 13, 2015 at 11:02 pm There are more Mormons in California than in any other state except Utah. The title of this article should not be “most Mormons,” but “highest percentage of Mormons” or “highest number per capita” or something like that.

California has 157 stakes, 19 missions (twice as many as Utah, and more than any other state), and 7 temples (more than anywhere except Utah). July 14, 2015 at 10:25 am Change the stats to totals instead of % — would be interesting to see. Arizona for example has 416k members which is only 5% of a bigger population yet it blows Wyoming out of the water. How many total Mormons are in CA? Would be interesting to see. July 15, 2015 at 5:02 am Ha ha Bret B So true! Considering the fact that Wyoming is the least populated state in the nation, there are states that have less than 2% and could still have more mormons! I am from Wyoming. My sister and most of her married kids/grandkids live in Mesa. I lived all of my middle school and high school years in Northern AZ. July 14, 2015 at 12:17 pm I agree that it would be interesting to see totals as well as percentages.

I think it would also be interesting to see population density (Mormons per square mile or something like that). I suspect all of these measures have something to do with how many temples are built–along with other factors like temple activity and other measures of faithfulness. Other factors might include current rate of growth and potential for future growth. July 14, 2015 at 1:07 pm I don’t think these numbers are accurate. Texas has more than 300,000 thousand members and it is not even listed. Just be careful.The following data is from LDS.org 2015 church membership by state. Texas : 334,772 Total Church Membership 8 Missions 635 Congregations 4 Temples, 111 Family History Centers. July 14, 2015 at 2:02 pm Why has this become a competition in membership? As a convert I believe we should be all working harder to spread the Gospel and bring in the other 98% or less. To let them see what happiness and peace we feel with the Spirit always with us.

And the guidance we receive daily from the Scriptures and our General and Local Authorities. the growth of the Church…the spreading of good news…Gospel… caring for families…attend the Temple… is what we members should concentrating on…there is enough contention in the world w/o members contending over bigger & more… Merry Christmas & Blessed New Year… Hi Everyone; You can always look up current church statistics on lds.org Currently in California there are 778,629 members, 19 Missions, 1,367 congregations, 7 Temples and 183 Family History Centers. So California does have higher numbers but we also have a higher population than any of the other States named.Percentages. In the top 10 most populated cities in the U.S. 3 of them are in California. Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose in that order. More statistices for everyone!

July 14, 2015 at 5:00 pm I think the reason why, at least for me, is because it does not seem fair that Utah tops every list when it comes to members of the Church, and in many cases, including this one, the only list shown is one that benefits those in Utah and is written by someone in Utah. It does not show any of the other list which put others on top and Utah on the bottom. And those in Utah are also the ones who receive the most visits from General Authorities, the most in church funds, the most temples, and so on. If you live in Utah, it almost seems like the Church leaders like you better. Before the introduction of smaller temples, California and Utah had the same number of temples. Now that the church has started building smaller temples, the church has more than doubled temple construction in Utah, and has nearly built more of them in Utah than they have anywhere else, even though church attendance and membership there has not grown to match. There places in the world where members have to travel a day and a half in large numbers and spend there life savings to go to the temple, and the Church does nothing.

But if you live in Utah and cannot get into the session you want and have to wait 30 minutes, then the Church builds you six more temples within a one hour drive. Tell me how that does not show favoritism? I know that the Utah temples are busy, but all the members there have to do is wait a little longer to get into the temple, they don’t have to spend there life savings and travel a total of 3 days to do it. That is the problem that many people have. July 16, 2015 at 8:33 pm I don’t know why you are so concerned about Church members in Utah and where you get your information about Church leaders visiting more often! I live in Utah on the Wasatch Front. In the past 12 years we have had a “general authority” attend a stake conference 2 times- the Presiding Bishop and an area Seventy when the stake presidency was changed. My daughter lives in California and they have an apostle visit their stake conferences often. As far as the number of temples in Utah…Utah members are temple attenders. The temples we have are over crowded on Saturdays and on week night evenings.

I have heard (from instructors at Family History seminars) that 80% of the temple work that is performed is done in the temples of Utah. It stands to reason the Church would build temples where the demand is high. Because I live in the midst of numerous temples, I feel it an obligation to attend often, as well as a blessing. It is easy to “look over the fence” and think Utah members have an advantage, and I think we do, but it is only because of our high percentage of faithful members. Don’t complain, just be happy you have the Gospel in your life and be the best latter-day saint you can be where you live. July 17, 2015 at 11:59 am Charlotte. I am from the midwest and have to say to Amen ! What a blessing to have so many temples and feel the responsibility to attend them. For us it takes one to two days to get to a temple because of distance. I don’t understand the squabbling that happens between members when there is information given about the church . Just be worthy to go to the Temple closest to you and be there as much as you can.

If you need to have more information to vary this report then go to lds.org and find out what you need to know for yourself and not use it for a case for contention. April 11, 2016 at 9:37 pm There is nothing “sinister” about it. I’m sorry for your unhappiness, but the LDS Church is not a “cult” and it does not “run the government” in Arizona. There is obviously no way that it could, with the LDS population constituting a small minority. Last I looked, John McCain and Gov. Brewer were both very far from being Mormons. Finally, considering that the Mormons were among the first white settlers of Arizona, who made the desert of Mesa, Safford, Thatcher, St. David and other communities “blossom as the rose,” and given that very few if any of the current LDS population in Arizona were born in New York, maybe it would be easier for you to move to a place with few Mormons (like New York) rather than uproot 416,000 people.

May 20, 2016 at 2:39 pm Barry, it is depressing if an increasing number of people find it necessary to follow or join with any cult or way of thinking that is fundamentally based on either lunacy, stupidity or hypocrisy. And this includes all religions… Christianity, Islam, Judaism you name it. Have you ever actually read the bible? I wonder because I have and I have never encountered a “Christian” (of any type) who wasn’t either psychotic, hypocritical or just plain dumb. To illustrate what I mean, take Numbers 31, verses 14 through 18 in the Bible where after victory on the battlefield Moses orders his troops to kill all the boy babies and their mothers and any woman who is not a virgin and to take all the young women and girls for themselves. Now, when confronted with this clear and obvious case of “God”-approved murder and child sexual enslavement the Christian hypocrite (painful to watch) tries to talk his way out, either by (incredibly) still maintaining that his “God is lov May 27, 2016 at 3:20 pm @Christian. I admire your boldness.

To speak as a Mormon and to something I think we can both agree on. I’ve studied the Bible both old and new testaments many times along with the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants. While the methods God uses to wake up and bring the people to repentance has changed throughout time, the message has always been the same. Jesus paid 100% for our sins, so we could learn to love as He does, and repent (which is not a reimbursement to Him for his suffering) when we choose not to love. His atonement makes it possible to return and live with God the Father and Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Love is the whole purpose of the gospel; to show us and allow us to choose to love as Jesus showed us how to love. They will never stop being God, even as we become more like them because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ which affords us the ability to increase in love.

Most And Least Mormon States In America (PHOTOS) | The Huffington Post Most And Least Mormon States In America (PHOTOS) 05/21/2012 05:22 pm ET | Updated May 21, 2012 1.5k Jahnabi Barooah Assistant Editor, Religion Click through the slideshow to see most and least Mormon states in the United States: Most and Least Mormon States Most and Least Mormon States 1 69,124 Mormons per 100,000 persons. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Original photo here . Share this slide: Wikimedia Commons A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, “ 2010 U.S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study (RCMS) ” was recently released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county-by-county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups .

(The survey differentiates between specific denominations within the same tradition.) The researchers found Utah to be the most Mormon state with close to 70 percent identifying as Mormon adherents. Nearly one in three Mormons are in the state of Utah. The researchers found the District of Columbia (just the district) to be the least Mormon state with only about 0.07 percent identifying as Mormon adherents. The researchers define adherents to be those with an affiliation to a congregation including children, members and attendees who are not members, and believe that the adherent measure is the most complete and comparable across religious groups. Congregations are defined as groups of people who meet regularly at a pre-announced time and location. More than 6.1 million Mormon adherents and 13,601 congregations were reported in 1,873 counties. The largest concentration of Mormons in the United States is in the mountain region of the West where more than 5 percent of the population identified as a Mormon. The smallest concentration of Mormons were found in the Northeast and pockets in the South. Similarly, the most dense concentration of Mormon congregations is found in the Western region of the country.

In stark contrast, the Midwest, most of the South and Northeast reported very few to almost zero congregations. As the map below shows, compared to the year 2000, most of the West reported minor change in percentage of Mormon adherents. Many regions in the South and Midwest reported major gains in Mormon population in some counties, and major losses in others. Bibliography: Grammich, Clifford, Kirk Hadaway, Richard Houseal, Dale E. Jones, Alexei Krindatch, Richie Stanley, and Richard H. Taylor, 2012. 2010 U.S. Religion Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study. Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.

Click through to see a list of most and least religious states in the United States as reported by Gallup: Top 10 Most and Least Religious States Top 10 Most and Least Religious States 1 Mormon population: 60 percent in Utah, 4-5 percent Nevada | Las Vegas Review-Journal Mormon population: 60 percent in Utah, 4-5 percent Nevada Mormon population: 60 percent in Utah, 4-5 percent Nevada The Las Vegas Mormon Temple, 827 Temple View Drive, is shown with with the city in the background. About 4 percent to 5 percent of Nevada residents are Mormon. (Las Vegas Review-Journal) Mormon population: 60 percent in Utah, 4-5 percent Nevada This April 6, 2013, file photo, shows the Salt Lake Temple as people walk to the Conference Center before the start of the 183rd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Salt Lake City.

(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Mormon population: 60 percent in Utah, 4-5 percent Nevada Members gather for the morning session of the 183rd General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, in Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' president Thomas S. Monson kicked off the two-day conference that brings 100,000 members to Salt Lake City by announcing the latest membership milestone from one of the fastest-growing churches in the world. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Tom Smart) By BRADY MCCOMBS ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY — Mormons in the United States are heavily concentrated in the West, with Utah having by far the most members, a new Gallup survey shows. Six in 10 Utah residents say they belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the survey shows. That makes it the only state where more than one quarter of residents identify as Mormon. Utah’s percentage of Mormons is more than double the proportion in any other state: Idaho ranks second with 24 percent of its residents belonging to Mormon church.

And 4 percent to 5 percent of Nevadans are Mormon. The results are not surprising: LDS church headquarters are in Salt Lake City and Utah was founded by early Mormon pioneers. These state-level findings come from a nationally representative sample of more than 178,000 U.S. adults interviewed as part of Gallup Daily tracking from January through December 2013. For Utah, 2,115 interviews were conducted over this time. The results paint a picture of the religious makeup of all 50 states. The survey shows Wyoming has the third-highest proportion of Mormons with 9 percent. Next on the list are Nevada and four other states that have about 4-5 percent of their residents in the LDS church: Montana, Arizona, Hawaii and Alaska. Washington, Colorado and Oregon round out the top of the list with 3 percent each. Eleven states have so few Mormons that the percentage rounds to 0, the Gallup survey shows. Nationally, Mormons account for only about 2 percent of the U.S. adult population, the survey shows.

The survey found that 51 percent of Americans call themselves Protestants or other non-Catholic Christians, making it the largest religious group in the U.S. The fast-growing Mormon faith has reached 15 million members worldwide, LDS Church officials say, marking a three-fold increase from three decades ago. About 6.3 million are in the United States, the church says. But the nonprofit Cumorah Foundation, which analyzes membership numbers independently of the church, estimates that only about 30 percent of Mormons worldwide regularly attend church meetings. The percentage of Utah residents who call themselves Mormon has held steady around 60 percent for the past six years, past Gallup survey show. Gallup surveys done before 2008 used a different methodology, negating the value in comparing the older survey to the new ones, Gallup spokeswoman Stephanie Holgado said. A Portrait of Mormons in the U.S. | Pew Research Center July 24, 2009 A Portrait of Mormons in the U.S. In Utah, July 24 is Pioneer Day, a state holiday commemorating the day in 1847 when the first Mormon settlers, led by Brigham Young, entered the Salt Lake Valley.

Today, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Mormon groups make up 58% of Utah’s population and 1.7% of the total U.S. adult population, according to the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey , conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life in 2007. The religious tradition, founded in the United States in 1830, has come under increased public scrutiny in recent years as a result of prominent Mormons in the news, such as Mitt Romney, a 2008 Republican presidential primary candidate and former governor of Massachusetts, and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, as well as the involvement of the LDS church in political issues, such as the recent debate over gay marriage in California. A new analysis of the Landscape Survey data reveals that as a group Mormons are among the most devout and conservative religious people in the country. The Mormon community is also internally diverse, with differences according to levels of religious commitment and educational attainment, regions of the country where Mormons live, and between lifelong Mormons and those who have converted to the faith.

This report explores Mormons’ unique place in the American religious landscape and is divided into three parts: demographic characteristics, religious beliefs and practices, and social and political views. I. Demography Demographic Characteristics of Converts to Mormonism Mormons make up 1.7% of the American adult population, a proportion that is comparable in size to the U.S. Jewish population. By contrast, members of evangelical Protestant churches and Catholics each make up roughly a quarter of the adult population (26.3% and 23.9%, respectively), and 16.1% of Americans say they are unaffiliated with any particular religion. Mormons are more numerous, however, than members of other small religious groups such as Jehovah’s Witnesses (0.7%), Buddhists (0.7%), Muslims (0.6%) and Hindus (0.4%). The vast majority of those who identify with the Mormon tradition (96%) say they are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Just 1% belong to the Community of Christ, and the remainder do not specify a particular Mormon group. This report analyzes Mormons as a whole. Geographic Distribution The Mormon population in the U.S.

is heavily concentrated in the West (76%). In fact, roughly one-third of all American Mormons (35%) live in Utah, the state founded by its early leaders. An additional 13% live in California while 7% reside in Idaho, 5% in Nevada and 4% each in Oregon and Arizona. Only about one-in-ten Mormons (12%) live in the South (including 4% who reside in Texas), 7% live in the Midwest and just 4% reside in the Northeast. Age, Gender and Family Structure Mormons tend to be slightly younger than the general population. Two-thirds (66%) are under age 50, compared with 59% of the public as a whole. Only two major U.S. religious traditions (Hinduism and Islam) and the religiously unaffiliated have populations younger than Mormons. At the other end of the age spectrum, by contrast, are mainline Protestants and Jews. Among each of these groups, half (51%) are 50 or older. A majority of Mormons are women (56%).

Women make up more than half of other major Christian traditions as well, including Catholics (54%) and members of the evangelical (53%) and historically black Protestant (60%) traditions. By contrast, majorities of the major non-Christian traditions in the U.S. as well as the unaffiliated tend to be male. Nearly three-quarters of Mormons (71%) are married, compared with just more than half (54%) among the general population. Only Hindus (78%) are more likely than Mormons to be married. Mormons (83%) and Hindus (90%) also are the most likely of all the major religious traditions to be married to someone of the same faith. This compares with 63% of all married couples who are married to someone of the same faith, while 37% are in religiously mixed marriages (including Protestants married to a spouse from a different Protestant denominational family). Mormons are widely known for having large families and, indeed, about half of all Mormons (49%) have children under age 18 living at home, with one-in-five (21%) saying they have three or more children at home.

Only Muslims are similarly likely to have large families: 47% of Muslims have at least one child living at home and 15% have three or more. Among the population overall, by contrast, only about a third (35%) have children who are minors living at home and just 9% have three or more. Race Nearly nine-in-ten Mormons in the U.S. (86%) are white, compared with 71% of the general population. Just 3% of Mormons are African-American and 7% are Latino. Other predominantly white religious groups in the U.S. include Jews (95% white), members of mainline Protestant churches (91% white) and Orthodox Christians (87% white). Among Catholics, by contrast, only two-thirds are white (65%) and about one-third are Latino (29%). Jehovah’s Witnesses and especially Muslims are among the most racially diverse religious traditions in the U.S.; less than half of each tradition is white (48% and 37%, respectively). Immigrants to the U.S. make up a significantly smaller proportion of Mormons than they do of the population overall.

Only 7% of Mormons were born outside the United States, while among the general population, 12% were born outside the U.S. The Mormon community closely resembles the mainline, evangelical and historically black Protestant traditions in this regard; other religious traditions tend to have higher proportions of immigrants in their ranks. Education and Income Mormons are significantly more likely than the population overall to have some college education. Six-in-ten Mormons (61%) have at least some college education, compared with half of the overall population. However, the proportion of Mormons who graduate from college (18%) or receive postgraduate education (10%) is similar to the population as a whole (16% and 11%, respectively). Similarly, Mormons are slightly more likely to be in a middle income bracket than the general population; 38% of Mormons report earning between $50,000 and $100,000 annually, compared with 30% among the population overall in this income category.

Mormons are slightly less likely than the general public to be in the lowest income bracket (26% earn $30,000 or less per year compared with 31% among the general public), but they are about as likely to make $100,000 or more annually as the rest of the population (16% and 18%, respectively). This places Mormons roughly in the middle of other religious traditions on the socioeconomic spectrum. Jews, Hindus and Buddhists tend to have more education and higher incomes than Mormons, while Jehovah’s Witnesses and members of historically black Protestant churches and evangelical Protestant churches fall on the opposite end of the continuum. Demographic Characteristics of Converts to Mormonism The 26% of Mormons who are converts to the faith differ markedly from lifelong Mormons in several ways. First, converts tend to be older than lifelong Mormons. Nearly half of converts (48%) are over age 50, compared with about three-in-ten lifelong members (29%).

Converts also tend to be less educated than nonconverts (16% did not graduate from high school, compared with just 6% of lifelong members) and they earn decidedly lower incomes (40% make less than $30,000 a year, compared with 21% among nonconverts). Converts are more likely than lifelong members to come from minority racial and ethnic groups. One-in-ten converts to Mormonism are black, and nearly all black Mormons are converts. An additional one-in-ten Mormon converts are Hispanic, and just 72% are white; by contrast, 91% of lifelong Mormons are white. Converts are also more than three times as likely as lifelong members to be immigrants to the U.S. (14% vs. 4%). Nonconverts are concentrated in the West (84%), but converts are more dispersed throughout the U.S. Half of converts live in the West (53%), but nearly a quarter live in the South (22%), 14% live in the Midwest and 11% reside in the Northeast. Converts also are less likely than lifelong members to be married (64% vs.

74%), and the rates at which they have children living at home are closer to the national average than to the Mormon average; 61% of Mormon converts have no children living at home and 12% have more than three, compared with 47% and 24%, respectively, among lifelong Mormons. Photo Credit: Religion News Service Pagination The Most Mormon States In America Are Utah And Idaho | The Huffington Post The Most Mormon States In America Are Utah And Idaho 02/14/2014 10:03 pm ET | Updated Feb 14, 2014 Hansrico Photography via Getty Images The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was founded in New York in the 1830s, but since that time, the American Mormon population has largely settled elsewhere. The 2013 Gallup poll found that American members of the LDS church are overwhelmingly located in Utah and Idaho. Other than Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, all other U.S. states have a population of 5% or fewer Mormons, reported Gallup. 11 states have so few Mormon residents that their percentage in Gallup's 2013 interviewing rounds to zero.

See America's most Mormon states here: America's Most Mormon States Utah Population 2016 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs) Utah Population 2016 3,047,340 Located in the central southern sector of the USA, the state of Utah is the 13th largest in terms of land mass, but it is very sparsely populated by comparison. Around 80% of Uath's residents live in the surroundings of Salt Lake City; therefore, there are vast areas which are simply uninhabited. As of 2016, the state's estimated population is 2.99 million. If you take a look at the map above you can get population data for each county in Utah and see just how empty parts of the state are. In 2016, the estimated population of Utah is 2,995,919, up significantly from the 2010 Census-confirmed population of 2.76 million. Utah currently enjoys a growth rate of 1.64%, which ranks 4th in the country.

The last census in the USA was carried out in 2010, and this revealed that the Utah population stood at 2,763,885. This is a significant increase of over 20% from the numbers declared in 2000. Utah is currently the 4th fastest-growing state in the United States. Utah;s population in 2016 makes it the 34th most populous state in the country. It's interesting to note that this is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the US, and although numbers are growing by significant percentages, large parts of Utah remain completely uninhabited. The total surface area of Utah covers 84,899 square miles (219,887 square kilometers). For every square mile of Utah land, there is an average of 33.6 people, and there are only nine states in the country with a less dense population. Most of Utah's population (more than 2 million) lives in the towns and cities along the Wasatch Front, a metropolitan area running north-south with the Wasatch Mountains, although growth outside this area is also on the rise. For example, St.

George is currently the 17th growing metropolitan area in the country. By far the largest metropolitan area in the state is the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, with 1.3 million residents as of 2016. This is followed by the Odgen-Clearfield area with 597,000 residents. While Utah as a whole has a very low population density, Salt Lake city proper has a density of 1,666 people per square mile. It's worth noting that Salt Lake City, Utah, is the world headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and about 63% of Utahns are members of the church. This has a large influence on the culture and life in Utah.

Question: What U.S. state has the largest Mormon population?
Answer: Utah