US Branch Stats direct from the Service Dept

615 circuits

47 districts (35 English, 12 Spanish)

157 Spanish circuits

3,270 Spanish congregations

280,000 Spanish-speaking publishers (Only Mexico has more Spanish
publishers)

As of September 1, 2008 there were 12,652 congregations; 4.6 new
congregations formed per WEEK

41 Assembly Halls - West Palm Beach, Florida is the largest;
Bessemer, Alabama the smallest (1,001 seats)

306 District Conventions in the U.S. This year with 1,500,000
attending; almost 13,000 baptized

115 Regional Building Committees; with 131,000 volunteers who
worked on 938 Kingdom Halls

A side note here: Tennessee RBC #1 had 900 volunteers a year ago.
A year after the 5 brothers on the RBC were killed in a plane crash we
now have over 1,400 volunteers.

The Purchasing Department has moved from Brooklyn to Wallkill, NY

The Convention Office is now at Patterson, NY

MEPS will be moving to Patterson shortly

1,300 Bethelites have been reassigned with 470 now serving as
Special Pioneers

There are about 30 "Desk Men" in the Service Department who handle
the needs of 25-30 cicuits each

What is the average size of a congregation???

What does the largest assembly hall seat???  Do they rent out the assembly halls?

For the stats !!!!

Somethings won't be reflected in the stats.

How many congregations were disbanded or consolidated with other congregations in the New York City area and elsewhere in the United States

How many Kingdom Halls were sold

Only 13,000 baptized in the U.S.?

If that's true, that's a huge drop from the usual 25-35k that get baptized each year.

What jumps out here is the huge percentage of spanish speaking congregations within the total.  They must be losing large numbers of English speaking publishers and congregations and having that fact hidden by the increase among the Spanish.  I think the US has about 10% + Spanish speakers in the general population.

metatron

I would really really really like to see the English / non-English speaking ratio from 5, 10, 15, and 20 years ago. I'm 100% certain the Society has those numbers but would never in a million years release them - I'm almost certain they would show "negative growth" among English speakers of several percentage points per year.

Imagine the discouraging effect that would have on English-speaking congregations! 20 years of door to door work in the USA, billions of hours, resulting in a net loss of, what? 5%? 10%? 20%? more?

Interesting information. Thanks!

So, 470 people were demoted to lower paying positions and 930 were laid off all together.

Anyone know if the layoffs are still ongoing? Like most corporations, you layoff departments that are not profitable or in line with corporate direction and individuals who perform poorly or have attitude problems you don't want to fire for fear of litigation.

Most of the strategic layoffs continue on a cycle until the numbers look better or the morale sinks to a point where natural attrition takes over. At least that's how they roll in the large corporations I have worked for.

Fun stuff.

-- Not Firing It

Seems 15% of USA population is Hispanic yet 25% of WTS Districts are Spanish so a bit of a bias there.

Check back in 5 years to see if the USA WTS are 60% Spanish...

(PM me if you want to know why I reckon 60%)