Editing Unitarian Universalism (section)

==Number of members==
As of 2020, the UUA had 1,027 Unitarian Universalist member congregations in the United States<ref>{{Cite web |title=UUA Membership Statistics, 1961-2020 |url=https://www.uua.org/data/demographics/uua-statistics |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=www.uua.org |language=en}}</ref> and some congegrations outside the US.<ref>{{cite web |title=Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist (U/U) Global Headquarters and Churches |url=http://www.uua.org/international/affiliates/global-hqs-churches |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=UUA.org}}</ref> In 2011, it had two congregations in the [[U.S. Virgin Islands]], 19 in Canada, six in other countries, plus 28 multi-denominational member congregations: 17 in [[Massachusetts]], four in [[Illinois]], three in [[New Hampshire]], two in [[Vermont]], and one each in [[Maine]] and [[Washington, D.C.]] Seven of the ten U.S. states with the most congregations are also among the most populous states; the state with the most congregations and members is Massachusetts; Vermont is No.&nbsp;1 relative to its total population.<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/186525.shtml
|title= Unitarian Universalist congregations by state
|access-date= September 24, 2011
|last1= Walton |first1= Christopher L.
|author2=Todd, Kathy
|date= 2011
|work= weekly web magazine
|publisher= Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
|quote= Map includes 1,018&nbsp;UUA member congregations in the United States using data collected by the UUA through February 2011, but does not include the [[Church of the Larger Fellowship]] which is headquartered in Mass. but serves a geographically dispersed community. The map does include multidenominational congregations affiliated with the UUA
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120331073315/http://www.uuworld.org/ideas/articles/186525.shtml
|archive-date= March 31, 2012}}</ref> As of December&nbsp;2023 there are 42&nbsp;Unitarian Universalist congregations and emerging groups in Canada affiliated with the CUC.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Find a Congregation |url=https://cuc.ca/unitarian-universalism/find-a-congregation/,%20https://cuc.ca/unitarian-universalism/find-a-congregation/ |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=cuc.ca |language=en-US }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1956, Sam Wells wrote, "Unitarians and Universalists are considering merger which would have total U.S. membership of {{gaps|160|000}} ({{gaps|500|000}} in the world)".<ref>{{cite book |editor = Wells, Sam | title = The World's Great Religions |volume=3 Glories of Christiandom | location = New York |publisher = Time Inc. |year = 1957 |page = 205}}</ref> In 1965 Conkin wrote, "In 1961, at the time of the merger, membership [in the United States] was 104,821 in 651&nbsp;congregations, and the joint membership soared to its historically highest level in the mid-1960s (an estimated {{gaps|259|000}}) before falling sharply back in the 1970s&nbsp;...".<ref>{{cite book |author = Conkin, Paul K. |title = American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity |publisher = The University of North Carolina Press |location = Chapel Hill, NC |year = 1997 |page = [https://archive.org/details/americanoriginal00conk/page/95 95] |isbn = 0-8078-4649-X|url = https://archive.org/details/americanoriginal00conk/page/95}}</ref> According to the 2008 ''Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches'', the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations claimed 214,738&nbsp;members in 2002.<ref>{{cite book |editor = Lindner, Eileen W. | title = Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches 2008 | location = Nashville |publisher = Abingdon Press |year = 2008 |page = 381}}</ref>

In the United States, the [[American Religious Identification Survey]] reported {{gaps|629|000}}&nbsp;members describing themselves as Unitarian Universalist in 2001, an increase from {{gaps|502|000}} reported in a similar survey in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris/key_findings.htm |title=The Graduate Center, CUNY |publisher=Gc.cuny.edu |access-date=2011-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051024031359/http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris/key_findings.htm |archive-date=October 24, 2005 }}</ref> The highest concentrations are in [[New England]] and around [[Seattle, Washington]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Unitarians as a percentage of all residents |url=http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/unitarian.gif |work=Glenmary Research Center |publisher=Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States, 2000 |access-date=23 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307043442/http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/unitarian.gif |archive-date=7 March 2012}}</ref>

The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2007 by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and featuring a sample size of over {{gaps|35|000}}, puts the proportion of American adults identifying as Unitarian Universalist at 0.3%.<ref name=r1>{{cite web |url=http://religions.pewforum.org/affiliations |title=U.S. Religious Landscape Survey |publisher=Religions.pewforum.org |access-date=2011-02-27}}</ref>

The 2001 Canadian census done by Statistics Canada put Canadian Unitarians at 17,480,<ref>[http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55822&APATH=3&GID=431515&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=56&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=0&GK=0&VID=0&FL=0&RL=0&FREE=0 97F0022XCB2001002] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231011213/http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55822&APATH=3&GID=431515&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=56&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=0&GK=0&VID=0&FL=0&RL=0&FREE=0 |date=31 December 2006 }}. 2.statcan.ca (2010-03-09). Retrieved on 2010-09-29.</ref> and the September&nbsp;2007 membership statistics from the CUC show they had at that time 5,150&nbsp;official members.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cuc.ca/archive/whos_who/Admin/phil/InfoTopics2008February.pdf |title=Membership – The More it Changes, the More it Stays the Same |access-date=2011-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109013606/http://cuc.ca/archive/whos_who/Admin/phil/InfoTopics2008February.pdf |archive-date=2015-01-09}}</ref> In 2015, the CUC reported 3,804 members.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cuc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/The-Canadian-Unitarian-Spring-2016.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315161622/http://cuc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/The-Canadian-Unitarian-Spring-2016.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-15 }}</ref>