Beadle County, South Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

4,156	5,249		3,291	127	4,200
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

^ Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	481	25.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	350	18.2
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	3,050	158.9
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	220	11.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	209	10.9
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	131	6.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	3.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	15	0.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	223	11.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	2,288	119.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,794	93.5
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	2	434	22.6
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	1.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	1,255	65.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	195	10.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	3.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	2	348	18.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	451	23.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	5	2,216	115.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	51	2.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	37	13,878

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 19,195. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (13,878) include 72.3% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.