Demographics

Mensa members by age
The youngest Mensan is 4 years old; the oldest is 102 years old.
Approximately 41 percent are Baby Boomers between the ages of 44 and 61.
Just under 60 percent of new members in 2004 were "Gen-Xers," between the ages of 23 and 43.
More than 1,300 members are under the age of 18.

Mensa members by gender
The general membership is 65 percent male, 35 percent female.
The leadership — both national and local officers — is 50 percent male, 50 percent female.

Mensa members by occupation
The diversity of Mensa's membership is best described by the various ways they earn their livings. These are a few of Mensa's occupations.

Mensa families
There are more than 1,500 families with two or more Mensa members.

American Mensan facts
44,377 members responded to the questionnaire from which these questions were culled.

27,481 have college degrees.
5,639 speak at least two languages besides English.
2,027 are into golf.
1,725 love sci-fi movies.
1,674 are into astronomy.
769 are interested in martial arts.
547 are interested in UFOs.
390 are coin collectors.

Ten largest Local Groups (based on March 2005 membership figures)