Charles Mix County, South Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

1,463	2,283		2,979	51	2,574
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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	6	2,408	263.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	6	733	80.3
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	4	114	12.5
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	3	300	32.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	3	575	63.0
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	2	526	57.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2	614	67.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	2.7
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	363	39.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	71	7.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	10	1.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	35	3.8
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	83	9.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	36	3.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	490	53.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	43	4.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	5.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	64	7.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	37	6,540

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 9,131. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (6,540) include 71.6% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†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.