State/Territory	Number of Members	Population1	Members as a % of State Population	Percent of Total PC(USA) Membership	Number of Congregations
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida	28,877 4,589 27,793 21,826 185,479 37,733 7,228 11,557 7,035 132,961	4,273,084 607,007 4,428,068 2,509,793 31,878,234 3,822,676 3,274,238 724,842 543,213 14,399,985	.68 .76 .63 .87 .58 .99 .22 1.59 1.30 .92	1.10 .17 1.06 .83 7.05 1.43 .27 .44 .27 5.05	170 37 98 132 586 125 20 37 17 362
Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine	83,966 1,285 8,148 110,936 61,261 60,707 43,004 31,914 18,524 645	7,353,225 1,183,723 1,189,251 11,846,544 5,840,528 2,851,792 2,572,150 3,883,723 4,350,579 1,243,316	1.14 .11 .69 .94 1.05 2.13 1.67 .82 .43 .05	3.19 .05 .31 4.22 2.33 2.31 1.63 1.21 .70 .02	304 6 51 463 269 307 198 200 121 10
Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire	35,771 4,243 89,142 48,552 14,631 56,989 8,184 34,097 5,079 1,873	5,071,604 6,092,352 9,594,350 4,657,758 2,716,115 5,358,692 879,372 1,652,093 1,603,163 1,162,481	.71 .07 .93 1.04 .54 1.06 .93 2.06 .32 .16	1.36 .16 3.39 1.85 .56 2.17 .31 1.30 .19 .07	146 32 273 194 129 308 54 146 19 10
New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island	99,418 10,856 139,140 165,019 7,887 142,257 29,787 28,303 280,028 2,042	7,987,933 1,713,407 18,184,774 7,322,870 643,539 11,172,782 3,300,902 3,203,735 12,056,112 990,225	1.24 .63 .77 2.25 1.23 1.27 .90 .88 2.32 .21	3.78 .41 5.29 6.27 .30 5.41 1.13 1.08 10.64 .08	369 68 729 741 66 610 158 135 1,096 9
South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming	80,536 10,867 55,048 145,873 4,726 733 112,080 57,586 26,450 34,544 5,872	3,698,746 732,405 5,319,654 19,128,261 2,000,494 588,654 6,675,451 5,532,939 1,825,754 5,159,795 481,400	2.18 1.48 1.03 .76 .24 .12 1.68 1.04 1.45 .67 1.22	3.06 .41 2.09 5.54 .18 .03 4.26 2.19 1.01 1.31 .22	327 88 311 553 23 9 519 222 203 167 30
Puerto Rico	8,385	3,782,862	0.22	.32	71
Total	2,631,466	265,283,783	0.99	100.01	11,328

1 Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Press release (December 30, 1996) AEstimates of the Resident Population of States: July 1, 1990 to July 1, 1996" and Press release (April 30, 1996) AEstimates of the Resident Population of Puerto Rico Municipios, July 1, 1996,@ Public Information Office, U. S. Bureau of the Census

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