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By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
Here is what I can see... Post here if you want your specific council numbers, or I can see by state, also. Also, if you want to know by program, sing out... As of today, National level, all programs including Learning for Life, total youth registered is 877, 225. Same month last year number was 986,520. So, overall, drop is 109,295 Scouts, or 11.08% loss, from Dec 2024 to Dec 2025 I'll check these numbers again after 31 Dec, when many current registrations expire, and again after mid-March, when the 60 day grace period expires. We are losing about 10% in our Troop, due to those turning 18. Hope to gain those back during crossover season. Please remind me -
I don't know exact national membership numbers but the latest I saw from earlier in the fall was around 915,000 and that was down about 90,000 from the same point the year before. There are some district positions that can access the membership totals on an ongoing basis and would know what the current number right now is. There used to be someone on here who would post them but I haven't seen him/her in awhile. -
I do wonder what the "Actual" BSA National Numbers are at this point. Nobody really knows. Nobody knows where to get the information. Most people have stopped asking. Main success is judged by funds raised. Most of our council staff is focused on getting cash, to support all the staff that is raising cash. In our district we have and continue to lose troops and packs, but not sure there is any effort to save any of them or figure a way to stem the tide. We have not witnessed an actual DE or other council staff in the wild in forever. It's not that we have a bad relationship, that would infer our units actually knew who they were, we literally have no relationship. There are maybe 20 units in the district (though I think less) and one would assume they may come by annually to see what's up. In the end BSA (sorry SA) will likely not end with a bang, it will just not be around the professionals that were supposed to be the managers and provide vision will go raise money elsewhere. -
Sad, but not surprising. Scouting is best when it involves "outings". It's expensive and very time consuming to the country from the ultra urban NY areas. I enjoy the stories of a parent scouter who told me incredible scouting stories from the 1980s where his patrol (on their own) took the subway to rail stations to get out the countryside for activities. ... I really can't see that happening now. Once they were stopped on the side of the road by the police as they walked to their target park. -
Yeah this is pretty much the same for every metro area. I am in a major metro and we're roughly 1/3rd the membership size that we were 5 years ago. If NYC is anything like what is going on in my area it's the money hustle for FOS that is now an 8-10 month part of the annual calendar, it's detracting from recruiting and retention. This months roundtable was a discussion about how we're not having a roundtable next month, instead we're having a "fundraising mixer". Next month will be the first roundtable I've skipped in 4 years; we're not even done with the main fall recruitment push and the paid scouters have already moved right back into FOS money hustle.
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