New Presbyterian Church (USA) Report for 2024 Reveals Shocking Membership Statistics 

The Presbyterian Church (USA) just revealed its membership numbers for 2024, and it is not pretty. The liberal denomination is showing a continued loss of membership, closure of churches, an increasingly aging population, and an inexorable decline into irrelevancy, with one of the only rising data points being the number of members who identify as “non-binary” or “genderqueer.”

Since its formation, the PCUSA has denigrated to one massive pen for goats, run almost exclusively by faithless, didn’t-finish-well octogenarians and blue-haired lesbians, with barely a sheep to be found anywhere. Some of their greatest hits over the last three years include:

Unlike the theologically conservative Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), which has grown over the years instead of continuing to contract, the PCUSA’s future is far more bleak.

Some of the highlights from the PCUSA’s newly release report include:

• Membership declined by 48,885 people from the year prior, representing a 4.5% drop to 1,045,848 people. Over the last 30 years, the PCUSA has lost 66% of their members.
  
• Of the million members that remain, 34% of them are over the age of 70, meaning that the denomination is both spiritually and physically dying.
  
• Another 25% are between the ages of 56-70. Less than 4% are under 17, another 7% between the ages of 18-25, and 13% between the ages of 26-40.
  
• The PCUSA shuttered 149 churches and 652 ministers either died, retired or were removed from office.
  
• The majority of churches are small, with over 45% having 50 or fewer members.
  
• 22.7% of PCUSA churches comprise less than 25 people, and another 22.5% have between 26 and 50 members. Furthermore, another 23.4% of churches have between 51-100 members. Notably, these numbers are only the names on the books and don’t reflect only those who consistently gather in person every week, which is much lower.
  
• In 2021, the PCUSA had 919 churches with more than 800 members. Three years later, that number has dropped to only 367.
  
• 87.6% of members are white, and women outnumber the men 59.2%-40.6%

Lastly, one of the few data points where the denomination saw an increase was the number of members who identify as non-binary/genderqueer, increasing by 12% from the year before and more than 31% from the year before that.

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