What percentage of kids are scouts in your district?

[Cito]

Had lunch today with the district executive and the district chairman. It came out that the council's goal is to have 15% of kids who are eligible to be in traditional cub scouting. Right now the number is about 5.2% in our district, which has been improving every year.

 

I think in the neighborhood that I'm in we have about 6.7% in our pack and I bet with the popularity of our join nights we'll push close to the 10%.

 

So...I know not everyone is into numbers, but where are you and what sort of percentage does your area have?

[infoscouter]

Council wide our density is 18.5%. In our district its 11.75%.

[Cito]

Thanks infoscouter, and where are you located?

 

I'm curious to understand how much of this is regional.

[5yearscouter]

Those % seem mighty high compared to ours.

 

I send home about 2000 flyers each fall,

that goes to all the boys in 1st -5th grade in about 10 or 11 schools.

I say about cause the numbers do vary we have a couple schools who sometimes won't let us send hom flyers.

 

I get on average 3 scouts for each of the 10 schools, one year I got 4 from each.

 

so to estimate, that's about 1.5% to 2%

 

this is just cub scouts though.

 

now I guess I have no way of knowing how many are in the LDS scouting in the area, but most of the wards average 5-10 scouts in their cub scout packs, so they aren't taking away very many scouts, since only 1 or 2 wards service the area of those 10 schools I recruit from (with some overlap since school districts don't follow ward boundaries).

 

[Basementdweller]

3.1%

 

DE smacks me in the face with it every fall.

 

Mr. B you really need to do better recruiting, In comparable markets of Tulsa Oklahoma and Tacoma Washington Scouting in those markets net 15% of the available youth..

[aszalan]

our pack started the year out with 50 cub scouts which is approximately 5% of the boys in first - fifth grade in our area.