Turner County, South Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,613	3,869		1,342	131	894
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	2,605	281.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	5	915	98.9
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	1,180	127.5
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	523	56.5
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	4	486	52.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	885	95.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	3	423	45.7
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	267	28.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	82	8.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	41	4.4
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	435	47.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	7.5
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	188	20.3
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	31	3.4
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	170	18.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	40	8,300

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 9,255. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (8,300) include 89.7% 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.