By Sandra Tanner
According to the Salt Lake Tribune for December 9, 2018,
. . . an unrelenting demographic shift has hit a major milestone: fewer than half the people living in Salt Lake County are on the rolls of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The membership numbers come from the church itself . . .
They show Salt Lake County’s population is now 48.91 percent Latter-day Saint, the lowest since at least the 1930s, according to the available records. There are 558,607 people on the church membership rolls in the state’s largest county, which has an estimated population of 1,142,077.
The article continues:
In Utah overall, the percentage of Latter-day Saints is 61.55 percent, a figure that has also inched down as the state’s hot job market has attracted new residents who are less likely to be members of the predominant faith than the state’s homegrown population.1
Footnotes:
- “Salt Lake County is now minority Mormon, and the impacts are far-reaching,” Salt Lake Tribune, December 9, 2018. ↩︎
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