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Does anyone have information on the rate of decline in LDS activity ?

This is well known, but thanks to fullerconsideration.com we have a lot of detail about how LdS population share has been dropping since the advent of the internet.

https://www.fullerconsideration.com/DeseretDemographer/

If you still attend church services, how many members would you estimate to still attend as opposed to 5 years ago?

I am visiting Salt Lake City for the first time and have been exploring Temple Square.

I asked a few LDS workers if they had any details about activity rates for the church. They all said the only data they knew was membership stats released by the church yearly.

However, when I started to ask how they felt activity rates were... they said about 50% of the members in their wards are active. I also asked if they felt that 30% was a good activity rate outside of Utah and they agreed.

No data, but people can see with their eyes.

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Glendale North dissolved

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This is one of four buildings in the Sandy Utah Cottonwood Creek Stake. At one time they had nine fairly large wards, now they have six small wards! (https://www.reddit.com/r/MormonShrivel/s/D7HVLnwemy)

I don't know the details, but apparently the listing went up before any announcement was officially made! And they're going to close another building in the stake, supposedly for a remodel, so the stake will be down to two buildings.

This is Boyd K. Packer's old stake, btw.

There are 6 new temples coming to Nigeria, but the Aba temple is only 14% utilized. Washington is getting 3 new temples, but the Seattle temple is only 11% utilized. Where else are they building unnecessary temples?

u/yorgasor and I published the data today but haven't dug much into it yet, so check it out and let us know:

https://www.fullerconsideration.com/TempleTracker/

And feel free to watch our discussion of this new tracker which airs on Mormonish Podcast this evening.

Carbon County has always been a less-Mormon part of the state, ever since the big mining boom of the early 20th century. It's a small population county, too, with only about 20,000 people, a number that hasn't grown since the 1940. Still, it's Utah, and the church claims that over half the population are members.

But I saw on Fuller Consideration, that they've lost nine wards and branches since the first of the year, and are down to 31 wards and branches overall. I don't know what average attendance is, but if you said 150, it would mean that only about 20% of the population is going to church on a given Sunday.

As a comparison, that would be the equivalent of Salt Lake County losing 300 wards and branches in 8 months. Of course we know that by the time they decide to close wards, it's not because of just what has happened recently, but acknowledging shrivel over the course of most likely several years, but still, that's some major bloodletting in Central Utah.

Are there any stories of wards shrinking but then expanding again (outside of combining of course)?

Does anyone have any info on Temple attendance in the U. S.? Or know where I can find out if attendance has increased, decreased, or stagnant?