{"id":4035,"date":"2014-06-14T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2014-06-14T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T18:36:19","slug":"where-we-are-where-were-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/06\/where-we-are-where-were-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Where we are, where we&#8217;re not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) has produced some interesting maps on the geographic distribution of various religious groups, as of 2010. You can search for specific religious groups, including the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). For the UUA, you can pull up the following types of maps: adherent change, adherent quintile, cartogram, locations, location change, penetration, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I also found county-by-county data in CSV format, which I dumped into a spreadsheet, and played around with. Here&#8217;s some numbers for you to think about: Just 5 U.S. counties show a population penetration of between 1.0% and 4.99%: Nantucket County in Massachusetts (1.97%); Jefferson County in Washington (1.45%); Charlottesville County in Virginia (1.37%); Los Alamos County in New Mexico (1.19%); and Windsor County in Vermont (1.15%).<\/p>\n<p>Click on the low-resolution map below (showing population penetration) to go to the ASRAB Web page where you can get high-resolution maps and other data:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcms2010.org\/maps2010.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BlogJun1414-300x228.png\" alt=\"BlogJun1414\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BlogJun1414-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BlogJun1414.png 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or read on for a few more facts and figures about Unitarian Universalism that I got from the ASRAB Web site:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(1) There are 15 counties (or county equivalents*) which show a UU population penetration of 0.5-0.99%:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>City of Waynesboro, Virginia* (0.94%)<\/li>\n<li>City of Manassas, Virginia* (0.92%)<\/li>\n<li>City of Fredericksburg, Virginia* (0.90%)<\/li>\n<li>Suffolk County, Massachusetts (0.75%)<\/li>\n<li>Middlesex County, Massachusetts (0.74%)<\/li>\n<li>Washington County, Vermont (0.71%)<\/li>\n<li>Arlington County, Virginia (0.64%)<\/li>\n<li>Addison County, Vermont (0.64%)<\/li>\n<li>Barnstable County, Massachusetts (0.62%)<\/li>\n<li>Transylvania County, North Carolina (0.57%)<\/li>\n<li>Latah County, Idaho (54%)<\/li>\n<li>Chittenden County, Vermont (0.53%)<\/li>\n<li>Benton County, Oregon (0.51%)<\/li>\n<li>Outagamie County, Wisconsin (0.51%)<\/li>\n<li>Tompkins County, New York (0.50%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(* Virginia includes independent cities that are considered counties for census purposes.)<\/p>\n<p>(2) Santa Clara County, California, where my UU congregation is, has a UU population penetration of only 0.06%. Congregation planters, take note: in Santa Clara County, there are just 4 UU congregations (with just 987 UUs), to serve a county population of 1,781,642. Plenty of room for growth in this county!<\/p>\n<p>(3) The U.S. county with the highest number of adherents (11,075), and the largest number of congregations (33), is Middlesex County in Massachusetts. This is where I grew up, which is probably why I think of Unitarian Universalism as a mainstream religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) has produced some interesting maps on the geographic distribution of various religious groups, as of 2010. You can search for specific religious groups, including the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). For the UUA, you can pull up the following types of maps: adherent change, adherent quintile, cartogram, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/06\/where-we-are-where-were-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where we are, where we&#8217;re not&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uua-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}