{"id":400686,"date":"2026-09-22T11:53:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=400686"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:41:48","slug":"tradition-and-change-among-latter-day-saints-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2026\/09\/22\/tradition-and-change-among-latter-day-saints-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradition and Change Among Latter-day Saints in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are still highly religious and conservative, but signs point to demographic and social change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple in American Fork, Utah. (Ryan Houston via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
About this research<\/summary>\n

This project looks at the religious beliefs and practices, as well as the social and political views, of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called Mormons) in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Pew Research Center has long studied the religiousness and political attitudes of Americans in different religious traditions. This project builds on our major 2011 survey of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. Learn more about Pew Research Center<\/a> and our other research on religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we do this?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This project is based mainly on data from the Center\u2019s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study<\/a> (RLS), a survey of 36,908 randomly sampled U.S. adults conducted from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024. It included interviews with 565 people who currently identify as Latter-day Saints (414 lifelong church members and 151 converts), as well as 316 former Latter-day Saints. The RLS was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support from the Lilly Endowment Inc., Templeton Religion Trust, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are more details about the landscape study\u2019s methodology<\/a> and information on the sample sizes and margins of error<\/a> for subgroups of Latter-day Saints analyzed in this project.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

In many ways, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are a stable and traditional community. For at least the last four decades<\/a>, Latter-day Saints (widely known as Mormons) have made up between 1% and 2% of the U.S. adult population<\/a>. Members of this group have consistently stood out as highly religious and conservative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several of Pew Research Center\u2019s surveys dating back to 2007 have found that Latter-day Saints are, on average,<\/strong> among the most religious adults in America<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Roughly 7 in 10 Latter-day Saints say religion is very important in their lives<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Source: Religious Landscape Study of U.S. adults conducted July 17, 2023-March 4, 2024.
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