Your metro's LDS community is bigger than it feels — it just can't find itself. One real introduction a day, with the reason attached.
Ask anyone where America's Latter-day Saints live and you'll hear "Utah." Here's what the 2020 U.S. Religion Census actually shows: Los Angeles has more members than Boise. Phoenix has more than triple Rexburg. Dallas, Seattle, and Houston each hold LDS communities the size of a mid-sized Utah city — they're just invisible inside metros of millions.
These are the fifteen largest LDS populations outside Utah and Idaho:
| # | Metro | Members | Congregations | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ | 301,196 | 617 | 6.2% |
| 2 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | 198,134 | 314 | 1.5% |
| 3 | Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV | 132,329 | 237 | 5.8% |
| 4 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA | 108,532 | 172 | 2.4% |
| 5 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 105,071 | 199 | 1.4% |
| 6 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | 104,512 | 184 | 2.6% |
| 7 | Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX | 85,938 | 162 | 1.2% |
| 8 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA | 83,481 | 151 | 3.3% |
| 9 | Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA | 75,384 | 120 | 3.1% |
| 10 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 72,147 | 134 | 1.1% |
| 11 | San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA | 70,288 | 112 | 1.5% |
| 12 | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | 68,148 | 108 | 2.1% |
| 13 | Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO | 63,656 | 119 | 2.1% |
| 14 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA | 62,194 | 107 | 0.3% |
| 15 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA | 49,952 | 87 | 0.8% |
Look at the share column. Phoenix's 300,000 members are 6.2% of the metro. In Los Angeles it's 1.5%; in Dallas, Houston, and the East Coast metros, under 2%. A community that size is real — big enough that the right person for you almost certainly lives there — but it's dissolved into a metro of millions, spread across an hour of freeway in any direction.
That's the specific way diaspora dating breaks: your ward has four singles your age, the community's activities pull from a fifty-mile radius, and no app sorts twenty million people by the things that actually matter to you. Utah's problem is too many candidates; the diaspora's problem is that the candidates exist and cannot find each other. The second problem is the one a matchmaker was built for.
This is the market we built for
People Like You finds the compatible people your metro is hiding and introduces you — one real introduction a day, with the reason attached. Each metro opens once enough people nearby join.
Join the waitlist ↑Source: 2020 U.S. Religion Census, Religious Congregations & Membership Study (usreligioncensus.org). “Outside Utah” here means outside Utah and Idaho — the Mormon Corridor's core states. Metropolitan areas only.