Hamlin County, South Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

528	2,734		680		1,598
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^†
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	4.6
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	11.0
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	708	134.6
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	5.7
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	95	18.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	2,076	394.6
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	337	64.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	2	213	40.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	260	49.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	343	65.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	22	4,144

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 5,261. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,144) include 78.8% 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.