I am currently out of the state but I don't want to be arrested coming to the state.
I would like to check if I have any warrant for arrest.
After an incident that happened years ago.
How do you check?
What are your thoughts about buying a house and living in Austin.
Do you think Austin is a great place to live?
Some of the people I know send me a comparison of buying a pound of meet 2020 vs 2026
In less than 6 years the cost of meet has literally double.
How do y'all people survivig this?
This is tragic
Jehovah's Witnesses by the numbers: education, income and demographics
If you want to understand the socioeconomic position of Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States, the Pew data are pretty interesting.
These aren't my estimates. They're from Pew Research Center's U.S. Religious Landscape Study.
EDUCATION
Among U.S. Jehovah's Witnesses:
For comparison, roughly 35% of U.S. adults have a bachelor's degree or higher in more recent Pew data.
So historically, JW educational attainment was dramatically below the U.S. average.
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
The income numbers are arguably even more striking.
Pew reported that 48% of Jehovah's Witnesses lived in households making less than $30,000 per year.
Compare that with groups such as:
Jehovah's Witnesses were at the opposite end of the distribution.
In another Pew income analysis, only about 4% of JW households were in the $100,000+ category, compared with much higher percentages among the most affluent religious groups.
THE EDUCATION–INCOME CONNECTION
This is important because Pew itself points out that education and income are strongly correlated.
The groups with the highest educational attainment tend to have substantially higher household incomes.
And the groups with lower educational attainment tend to have lower incomes.
Jehovah's Witnesses appear near the bottom on both measures.
OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC NUMBERS
Pew's 2014 survey also found that U.S. Jehovah's Witnesses were:
The age distribution was also concentrated among adults rather than being overwhelmingly young.
THE BIG PICTURE
So you have three things happening simultaneously:
Only around 9% had a bachelor's degree or higher.
Nearly half (48%) reported household income below $30,000.
Education is strongly associated with income, and Pew specifically notes that differences in income among religious groups largely mirror differences in educational attainment.
This doesn't prove that JW doctrine causes low education or low income. There are obviously other variables involved.
But it does raise an interesting question:
What happens to a population's socioeconomic outcomes when its young people are repeatedly encouraged to prioritize religious activity over university education and conventional career advancement?
The Pew statistics give us a way to at least examine the question empirically rather than arguing about it purely from personal experience.
Sources
Pew Research Center, U.S. Religious Groups: Demographic Data (2014 Religious Landscape Study).
Pew Research Center, How Income Varies Among U.S. Religious Groups.
Pew Research Center, How Religious Groups Differ in Educational Attainment.
The important caveat: these are older U.S. data, primarily from the 2014/2016 Pew research period. They should not be presented as a precise description of JW demographics in 2026.