So my think-piece continues. I’ve pulled a list of list of congregations that are in three large cities that are close to the United States mean cost of living: Atlanta, Columbus and Minneapolis. Then I went out fifty miles from their center — I used the largest convention center for each — and have listed below the congregations therein. (I could have probably chosen 25 miles and gotten almost all the same congregations.) No review yet — just want to show who I’m looking at. Though large congregations seem to be over-sampled; I wonder if that’s just a coincidence.
In order by UUA-assigned church number, with reported membership at the end.
| UU Congregation of Atlanta | Atlanta | GA | 737 |
| Northwest UU Congregation | Atlanta | GA | 162 |
| First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta | Atlanta | GA | 23 |
| Emerson UU Congregation | Marietta | GA | 101 |
| UU Congregation of Gwinnett | Lawrenceville | GA | 127 |
| UU Metro Atlanta North Congregation | Roswell | GA | 156 |
| Minnesota Valley UU Fellowship | Bloomington | MN | 167 |
| Pilgrim House UU Fellowship | Arden Hills | MN | 84 |
| Dakota UU Church | Burnsville | MN | 33 |
| Lake Fellowship of Unitarians & Universalists | Excelsior | MN | 34 |
| Michael Servetus Unitarian Society | Fridley | MN | 84 |
| First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis | Minneapolis | MN | 506 |
| First Universalist Church | Minneapolis | MN | 801 |
| UU Fellowship of Northfield | Northfield | MN | 44 |
| Unity Church – Unitarian | Saint Paul | MN | 863 |
| UU Church of Minnetonka | Wayzata | MN | 199 |
| White Bear UU Church | Mahtomedi | MN | 618 |
| First UU Church of Columbus | Columbus | OH | 691 |
| North UU Congregation | Lewis Center | OH | 144 |
| Delaware UU Fellowship | Delaware | OH | 23 |
| UU Congregation East | Reynoldsburg | OH | 18 |
| UU Fellowship of Yellow Springs | Yellow Springs | OH | 82 |
| UU Society of River Falls | River Falls | WI | 83 |
