Latter-day Saints - Rankings by Area (States) [Counties] [Metro-Areas]

Churches in the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) tradition follow at least some of the teachings of Joseph Smith, Jr., who published the Book of Mormon in 1830. [View our Latter-day Saints profile]

Using data from the 1980-2020 U.S. Religion Census, this list ranks U.S. States on the highest percent of the population that are Latter-day Saints. You can sort the list by clicking on the column headings.

Rank 2020	Rank 2010	Rank 2000	Rank 1990	Rank 1980	State	Percent 2020	Percent 2010	Percent 2000	Percent 1990	Percent 1980
1	1	1	1	1	Utah	64.99	69.12	66.45	71.76	67.42
2	2	2	2	2	Idaho	25.12	26.11	24.07	26.63	25.51
3	3	3	3	3	Wyoming	11.74	11.14	9.54	10.1	8.6
5	4	4	4	4	Nevada	5.95	6.49	5.85	7.41	6.89
4	5	5	5	5	Arizona	6.1	6.15	4.91	5.45	5.13
7	7	6	6	6	Montana	4.66	4.7	3.63	3.58	3.31
6	6	7	7	7	Hawaii	5.15	5.14	3.53	3.46	2.9
10	10	8	8	8	Oregon	3.62	3.86	3.05	3.15	2.81
9	9	10	9	9	Washington	3.76	3.97	3.02	3.1	2.54
11	11	11	11	10	New Mexico	3.28	3.28	2.32	2.6	2.21
8	8	9	10	11	Alaska	4.57	4.53	3.03	2.86	2.19
12	12	12	12	12	Colorado	2.61	2.83	2.15	2.13	1.8
13	13	13	13	13	California	1.91	2.05	1.56	1.79	1.71
21	19	17	15	14	Virginia	1.12	1.12	0.75	0.68	0.49
17	17	17	18	15	Texas	1.24	1.18	0.75	0.66	0.48
17	18	20	19	16	Oklahoma	1.24	1.15	0.71	0.61	0.46
32	31	32	26	16	Florida	0.74	0.73	0.47	0.46	0.46
15	16	16	15	18	Kansas	1.3	1.2	0.76	0.68	0.44
16	14	14	17	18	Nebraska	1.28	1.28	0.88	0.67	0.44
23	23	24	27	20	West Virginia	0.96	0.9	0.55	0.45	0.41
19	15	15	14	21	South Dakota	1.2	1.21	0.79	0.74	0.4
28	27	22	24	21	Maine	0.8	0.8	0.56	0.49	0.4
27	24	27	25	21	South Carolina	0.81	0.81	0.51	0.48	0.4
20	20	19	20	24	Missouri	1.18	1.1	0.73	0.54	0.38
26	27	25	22	25	Georgia	0.82	0.8	0.54	0.5	0.37
25	24	27	22	25	North Carolina	0.85	0.81	0.51	0.5	0.37
34	35	30	21	27	Vermont	0.72	0.7	0.5	0.51	0.34
37	37	27	31	28	New Hampshire	0.64	0.63	0.51	0.42	0.33
35	29	31	27	29	Maryland	0.7	0.74	0.49	0.45	0.32
22	22	22	29	30	Arkansas	1.07	0.95	0.56	0.44	0.31
33	32	34	33	31	Mississippi	0.73	0.72	0.46	0.4	0.3
36	36	32	34	31	Indiana	0.68	0.64	0.47	0.38	0.3
28	29	36	35	33	Kentucky	0.8	0.74	0.44	0.37	0.29
31	32	34	30	34	Alabama	0.75	0.72	0.46	0.43	0.28
24	24	26	35	34	Iowa	0.89	0.81	0.52	0.37	0.28
37	37	39	38	34	Louisiana	0.64	0.63	0.36	0.36	0.28
39	39	38	39	37	Minnesota	0.58	0.58	0.41	0.33	0.24
40	40	40	31	38	Delaware	0.57	0.54	0.35	0.42	0.23
30	32	37	40	38	Tennessee	0.77	0.72	0.42	0.32	0.23
41	41	41	41	40	Ohio	0.53	0.51	0.34	0.29	0.21
45	42	44	42	40	Illinois	0.44	0.43	0.29	0.27	0.21
44	42	43	43	40	Michigan	0.45	0.43	0.3	0.25	0.21
14	21	21	35	43	North Dakota	1.48	1.03	0.57	0.37	0.18
42	42	42	45	44	Wisconsin	0.46	0.43	0.31	0.24	0.16
48	47	47	46	44	Pennsylvania	0.4	0.39	0.25	0.21	0.16
45	45	45	43	46	Connecticut	0.44	0.42	0.28	0.25	0.15
48	48	46	47	47	Massachusetts	0.4	0.38	0.26	0.18	0.12
47	46	48	48	48	New York	0.41	0.4	0.24	0.17	0.11
51	49	48	49	48	New Jersey	0.37	0.36	0.24	0.15	0.11
50	49	50	50	48	Rhode Island	0.39	0.36	0.22	0.14	0.11
42	51	51	51		District Of Columbia	0.46	0.07	0.11	0.06

Note that data collection methods for religious bodies change over time, affecting the comparability of statistics. For further information, see the U.S. Religion Census website at https://www.usreligioncensus.org/.

The 2020 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include data for 373 religious bodies or groups. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 and on congregations only for 156.

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