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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	3	400	46.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	3.5
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	91	10.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	1,114	129.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	61	7.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	196	22.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	72	8.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	1,791	208.8
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	9.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	549	64.0
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,309	152.6
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	304	35.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	483	56.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	292	34.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	814	94.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	77	9.0
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	174	20.3
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	4	450	52.5
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	43	8,287

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 8,576. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (8,287) include 96.6% 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.