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Kingsbury County, South Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

776 3,876   1,148   15
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
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 3,046 514.1
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 5 630 106.3
Catholic Church Catholic 4 883 149.0
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 3 403 68.0
Hutterian Brethren Evangelical Protestant 2 200 33.8
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant 1 123 20.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 1 12 2.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 1 120 20.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 1 70 11.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 32 5.4
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 1 23 3.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 64 10.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 143 24.1
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 30 5,749  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 5,925. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (5,749) include 97.0% 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.