Religious Life by the Numbers
What is .25%
This is the longest serving minister in our church's history.
Who is Bill Gupton?
As of 2020, this generation is a larger percentage of the US population than Baby Boomers.
What are Millennials?
At 22% as opposed to Boomers 21.8%
When is 1995?
This year U.S. Church membership fell below a majority.
When is 2020?
In 2020, only 47% of U.S. adults belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque. Down more than 20 points from turn of the century
This is the original name of HUUC.
What is First Universalist Society of Cincinnati?
During the pandemic, media consumption increased by 87%. This generation's consumption increased the least.
What is Baby Boomers?
http://massmediacc.com/media-consumption-habits-across-generations/
This is the first year that HUUC reported more than $100,000 in expenditures.
When is 2001?
According to Pew Research this fall, this is the percentage of church attendanee that have attended church virtually at least once in a month.
This is the number of staff that have retired or announced their retirement since the beginning of the pandemic.
What is 3?
This is the median age for giving birth in 2022, according to the CDC.
What is 30?
Over the past three decades, birthrates have declined for women in their 20s and jumped for women in their late 30s and early 40s, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The trend has pushed the median age of U.S. women giving birth from 27 to 30, the highest on record.
This year HUUC reported the church's largest membership since before World War II.
When is 2019?
188, last full calendar year before COVID
In 2008, this region boosted 40% of UU members.
What is the West?
The midwest accounted for 17% (the lowest of the 4 regions).
This is the percentage of Zoom attendance since Ingathering this year.
What is 12.5%?
This generation is the least likely to live with a family of their own at the same stage of life.
What are Millennials? Only three-in-ten Millennials fell into this category in 2019, compared with 40% of Gen Xers, 46% of Boomers and 70% of Silents when they were the age Millennials are now.
This is HUUC membership at the turn of the century.
What is 131?
In 2008, this is the median age of adult UUs.
What is 52?
as opposed to the median age of Americans: 44
as opposed to the median age of UU Adults in 1990: 44
Those over 55 were about one-third in 1990, near half in 2008
This current member has been a member of our church the longest.
Who is Bob Booth?
Joined in 1977
This is the percentage of Gen Xers that report being church members.
What is 50%?
Church membership is strongly correlated with age, as 66% of traditionalists -- U.S. adults born before 1946 -- belong to a church, compared with 58% of baby boomers, 50% of those in Generation X and 36% of millennials.
What was our church's total budget in 1989?
A) Less than $25,000?
B) Between $25,000 and $50,000?
C) Between $50,000 and $100,000?
D) Between $100,000 and $150,000?
E) Over $150,000.
What this B?
The exact answer is $38,676. By comparison, our current budget is $264,000.