Making the Most of Total Weekend Attendance Published Dec 9, 2025 Total Weekend Attendance might seem like a simple number, but it reveals a lot about how your organization is doing. It helps you track growth, measure engagement, and give leadership a clear picture of weekend impact. In addition, it helps us have a backbone to build new features and reports from. Knowing the number of people that are attending on a weekly basis is essential for reporting purposes, and it answers the vital question, "How many people are attending?" How it works in Rock: Total Weekend Attendance pulls its data from a specific Metric. You can set this up by giving a Metric the Measurement Classification named Total Weekend Attendance. This keeps your attendance data consistent, no matter where it comes from. The default formula is: Total Childrenʼs Attendance + Total Students Attendance + Total Volunteer Attendance + Total Adult Attendance. You can adjust this logic if needed by editing the SQL to match your local reporting preferences. For your calculation to work, you must keep the partitions of Campus and Schedule. That means you can view totals across all campuses or drill into a specific service time. Where itʼs currently used We said that Total Weekend Attendance is the backbone for some new Rock features, here is the proof: Campus Average Attendance In v18 we additionally use Total Weekend Attendance to give you a picture of your Average Weekend Attendance for each campus. For more on this, see the Campus documentation. Step Charts As of v18, the new Steps charts have a chart Measure calculated using Average Weekend Attendance. The Average Total Steps Per Weekend Attendee measure displays the average number of total steps each weekend attendee has taken during a selected time period. For more on this, see the Steps Charts documentation. As you can see, this is an important Metric we are already using in Rock to give an accurate picture of how many people are attending your church. We’re excited to expand how Rock uses Total Weekend Attendance. You can expect more insights, automation, and ways to connect attendance to engagement in upcoming updates. Understanding how it works now prepares you for what’s next. Read the Measurement Classifications documentation