Unitarian Universalist Demographics

Ah, there’s nothing like the smell of fresh data….  If you have a new resource featuring data about UUs and or the UUA, please share. Thanks!

Raw UUA Congregational Certification Data
https://dyn.uua.org/congregation/certlist.php

Faith Communities Today Reports
http://www.faithcommunitiestoday.org/fact-2015

Pew – Religious Landscape Study
http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/
The 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study is based on telephone interviews with more than 35,000 Americans from all 50 states.

Unitarian Universalist Association

UUA Demographics Page
http://www.uua.org/directory/data/demographics/

• Unitarian Universalist Demographic Spotlight from Pew Forum
• Association of Religious Data Archives
• Unitarian Universalist Demographics from ARIS and FACT Surveys (PDF, 43 pages)
• Unitarian-Universalists in the United States 1990-2008: Socio-demographic Trends and Religious Patterns (PDF, 15 pages)

UU World Demographics, Statistics, Infographics

Three in a Thousand (Summer 2008; on the Pew Forum data)
http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/108007.shtml

Paul Rasor’s 2010 essay, “Can Unitarian Universalism Change?”
Based on his 2009 Berry Street Lecture, includes analysis of the racial and ethnic demographics of UUs in the Pew data; the UU World version includes updated figures that aren’t in the 2009 original:
http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/158175.shtml

And see the companion chart: http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/158303.shtml

“UUA membership growth, 2001-2011”
http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/183484.shtml

“Unitarian Universalist congregations by state”
http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/186525.shtml

“What size are Unitarian Universalist congregations?”
http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/188538.shtml

2010 Census Data

Data visualizations from the by Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. U.S. Religion Census 1952 to 2010 – Unitarian Universalist Association
Website and map downloads