Tribune data journalist AndyBLarsen found one anomaly in the U.S. Religion Census: The number of Latter-day Saints in Utah’s Rich County is greater than the county’s overall population. Huh?
Here’s one anomaly: The number of Latter-day Saints in Utah’s Rich County is greater than the county’s overall population. Huh?
So let’s dig in to the data. First, we’ll look at how the census was performed , and then we’ll see what it says.There’s nothing better than the U.S. census for data researchers. Rather than relying on polls that are then extrapolated over the whole population, the goal is to get a complete tally of everyone who lives in the U.S. Truthfully, census researchers do a darn good job, all things considered.
In particular, both of those groups report multiple counties in which they say there are more adherents to their churches than there are residents in the county. For example, here’s the USARB’s map of denominations in the U.S. Note that “major” here means the predominant faith in that county.With these numbers, you can see that all of Utah, western Nevada and southeastern Idaho are majority Latter-day Saint counties, along with a few counties in Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, even Alaska. Beyond that, you can see the influence of the Baptists in the South, the Lutherans in the north, and Catholics in the Northeast, Southwest and Florida.
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