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The membership growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the U.S. by state, 2000-2025. | Church News graphic <\/p>\nThe number of Latter-day Saints increased in 49 of 50 U.S. states over the past 25 years.<\/p>\n
The largest percentage increases were in North Dakota, 131%; Tennessee, 96%; Arkansas, 85%; Texas, 82%; and North Carolina, 70%.<\/p>\n
The membership growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the U.S. by state, 2000-2025. | Church News graphic <\/p>\n
California was the only state to have fewer members in 2025 than in 2000, although that state still has the second-largest Latter-day Saint membership among the 50 states.<\/p>\n
Church membership in the United States grew from 5.21 million at the end of 2000 to 6.93 million at year-end 2025<\/a>, for an increase of 33%. The Dec. 31, 2025, numbers are the most recent available on ChurchofJesusChrist.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Although not a state, the District of Columbia saw a larger percentage increase than any of the 50 states in number of Latter-day Saints, from 1,271 in 2000 to 3,648 in 2025<\/a>, an increase of 187%.<\/p>\n The largest numerical increases among states were in Utah, with 576,368 more Church members, followed by Texas, 178,239; Idaho, 134,477; Arizona, 128,817; Florida, 66,612; and Washington, 48,939.<\/p>\n States with the largest number of Latter-day Saints in 2025 were Utah<\/a>, 2.21 million; California<\/a>, 725,648; Idaho<\/a>, 482,905; Arizona<\/a>, 442,094; Texas<\/a>, 395,964; and Washington<\/a>, 278,576.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of Latter-day Saints increased in 49 of 50 U.S. states over the past 25 years. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,350583,47720,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-827617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-church-history","tag-members","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}