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	90	18.1
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	76	15.3
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	618	124.3
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	40	8.0
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	1,917	385.4
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	200	40.2
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	325	65.3
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	215	43.2
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	2	228	45.8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	287	57.7
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	22	3,996

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 4,974. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (3,996) include 80.3% 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.