Hutchinson County, South Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

3,201	2,985		2,011	2
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^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	3.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	112	13.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	2	1,096	132.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	3	407	49.3
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	2.9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	7	1,580	191.2
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	2	200	24.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,308	158.3
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	118	14.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	611	74.0
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	9.1
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	108	13.1
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	310	37.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	3	1,442	174.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	2	298	36.1
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	34	7,714

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 8,262. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,714) include 93.4% 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.