Fewer than half the residents of Salt Lake County belong to the Mormon church, according to new figures that illustrate how Utah's largest county is becoming more religiously diverse.Mormons account for 49 percent of the 1.1 million residents in Salt Lake County — the lowest percentage since at least the 1930s, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. That's according to membership figures provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that include active and non-active members.
Salt Lake County includes Utah's capital, Salt Lake City, which has long been more religiously diverse. But it also includes suburbs such as West Jordan, Sandy and South Jordan that have traditionally been Mormon hotbeds.
"The place is just becoming much more diverse," said Pam Perlich, director of demographic research at the University of Utah's Gardner Policy Institute. "It is not just that data set that is ...
