Mormon States (1990)

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Using data from the 1990 Religious Congregations and Membership Study, this list ranks U.S. states on the highest total number of adherents and the highest percent of the population that are Mormon. You can sort the list by clicking on the column headings.

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services.

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Ranking	State	Adherents	Percent
1	Utah	1,236,242	71.8
13	California	533,741	1.8
2	Idaho	268,060	26.6
5	Arizona	199,761	5.5
9	Washington	150,634	3.1
17	Texas	111,276	0.7
8	Oregon	89,601	3.2
4	Nevada	89,033	7.4
12	Colorado	70,313	2.1
24	Florida	59,845	0.5
3	Wyoming	45,793	10.1
15	Virginia	42,073	0.7
11	New Mexico	39,429	2.6
7	Hawaii	38,303	3.5
21	North Carolina	33,079	0.5
21	Georgia	32,593	0.5
35	Ohio	30,979	0.3
36	Illinois	30,352	0.3
41	New York	29,997	0.2
6	Montana	28,620	3.6
19	Missouri	27,877	0.5
39	Pennsylvania	24,488	0.2
37	Michigan	23,475	0.3
25	Maryland	21,505	0.5
30	Indiana	20,901	0.4
18	Oklahoma	19,107	0.6
27	Alabama	17,256	0.4
15	Kansas	16,941	0.7
23	South Carolina	16,896	0.5
10	Alaska	15,751	2.9
34	Tennessee	15,635	0.3
32	Louisiana	15,182	0.4
33	Minnesota	14,576	0.3
31	Kentucky	13,586	0.4
42	New Jersey	11,806	0.2
38	Wisconsin	11,530	0.2
40	Massachusetts	11,093	0.2
16	Nebraska	10,556	0.7
26	Arkansas	10,446	0.4
29	Mississippi	10,417	0.4
31	Iowa	10,383	0.4
25	West Virginia	8,095	0.5
37	Connecticut	8,075	0.3
22	Maine	5,956	0.5
14	South Dakota	5,155	0.7
28	New Hampshire	4,635	0.4
20	Vermont	2,855	0.5
28	Delaware	2,786	0.4
31	North Dakota	2,358	0.4
43	Rhode Island	1,438	0.1

Source

The data presented in this list were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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