How has the LDS Church's membership changed in the last year? Here's the state-by-state data from their most recent report.
’s article at this time, we’ll break down where there are more Latter-day Saints and where there are fewer than last year on a state-by-state basis. As always, the caveat with these numbers is that they’re self-reported by the church. We’vehow sometimes there are some anomalies in the self-reported data that have raised red flags on a county-by-county basis. I didn’t see any obvious red flags in my look at the state-by-state data, though.
First, we’ll look at the overall membership numbers in each state over time. Overall, the church said there are 6,804,028 Latter-day Saints in the United States as of 2022, of which 2,173,560 are in Utah. In the graph below, you can drop down and see the membership numbers change in all 50 U.S. states, along with the District of Columbia.
Let’s zoom in on this year’s report. How did church membership change from 2021 to 2022 in each of the 50 U.S. states?Just like last year, I’m struck by the political correlations: In the 2022 Senate election, zero of the top 15 states in Latter-day Saint membership growth elected a Democrat in the end. They all either elected a Republican or didn’t have a Senate race. Meanwhile, the 11 bottom states in church growth all elected Democratic senators.
Utah remains a state where the non-Latter-day Saint ranks are growing faster than the Latter-day Saint population — a bit of a surprise, considering differences in birthrates between Latter-day Saints and everyone else. Migration would be the logical next reason, but it’s difficult to tell whether it’s because of Latter-day Saints moving out of Utah to other states or big numbers of non-Latter-day Saints moving in.
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