What is your typical Lodge turnout percentage for meetings? We have over 200 members, but we may get 20 members that show up for meetings.
I think for the most part in the turnout is around 10% of the lodge membership. We have 106 members, usually at regular communications we have 10-15 in attendance.
I don't have our numbers right off the top of my head since we have gained 15 to 20 new members this year alone along with a few tranfers from other lodges , with several more petitions out to the investigation committees . But we average around 20 to 30 members a Stated meeting and several visitors .
Yepp we are in same boat. Another lodge just merged into ours. And 20-30 is about the number of people we have at the official meetings i think. Little more on degree nights. Plus we're really tight with the other lodges from the district, and we go to each others communications all the time. So maybe that's why it looks that our meetings are always very full.
We have just over 500 members and unfortunately it depends on what is on the menu for that month. We can average 5%-10% but when the Lodge is called back to labor we lose the "Belly Masons" so attendance drops.
We only have about 120 members. The norm for attendance is usually 10%. That seems to be the same situation with many organizations though. It's sad. I don't think our menu drives the attendance at my Lodge, because if the brothers who didn't show for dinner knew what they were missing we'd have a full house!
It sounds like the turnout percentage is universal. We float around 325 members and typically see 25-35 Brothers at the stated meetings. At some of our extra meetings, we are lucky to fill the chairs. And the Brothers that do show up for the meetings are the same from month to month.
This has been a constant discussion in our lodge as to how to entice more people into regular communications. Why are people not coming? Is it the late nights? Is it the ritual? Are the Red Sox on? How do increase this?
Bro Liberty, that's an old, old question that is raised not only in Lodges of Masons, but in just about every membership-based organization that's out there. If there was a good answer, or magic bullet, then someone would have found it long ago and we wouldn't be asking this question now. Right now, attendance at my Lodge is UNDER 10%! Even though we've had a run of Masters who are trying new and fun ideas, we just can't seem to fill the Lodge at meeting time. It's the way of the world, my Brother, the way of the world. I understand that at least some English Lodges work by subscription: that is, you pay a MONTHLY fee to be a Mason, not annual dues, and if you don't pay your subscription or you simply do not make the meetings (unless you have good cause), then you're out. Now, assuming that this is true, I would imagine that these Lodges have a much smaller membership, but they'd certainly have a much more active membership. I don't know if that would work here in the US - it certainly wouldn't work too well in my area as we have a huge Temple building to maintain and our monthly 'rent' helps pay those costs. But, who knows?, maybe it would work quite well and instead of having meetings (even degree conferrals!) where only four or five people show up, we might have a much larger percentage of our membership with their heinies in the seats.
