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	313	35.4
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	102	11.5
Catholic Church	Catholic	4	1,342	151.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	1	78	8.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	153	17.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	1	131	14.8
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	48	5.4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	6	1,782	201.4
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	50	5.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	4	530	59.9
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	2	1,000	113.0
Mennonite; Other Groups	Evangelical Protestant	2	173	19.6
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	220	24.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	4	439	49.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	190	21.5
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	831	93.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	7.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	147	16.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	4	357	40.3
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	43	7,955
	Total (Adjusted)^:**		8,746

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 8,576; in 2000 it was 8,849. The total population changed 3.2%. The unadjusted adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,955) include 89.9% of the total population in 2000. The adjusted total adherents (8,746) include 98.8% of the population.

Source

^*The “Unadjusted Totals” come from the 1990 and 2000 data collected by representatives of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). While quite comprehensive, this data excludes most of the historically African-American denominations and some other major groups. As a result, these numbers will be an underestimate of the total adherence rate, particularly in areas with a large African-American population. The 2000 data included 149 religious groups and the final results are published in Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, All rights reserved. The 1990 data included 132 groups and the final results are published in Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 Copyright © 1990, All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc [More information on the data collection]

^**The “Adjusted Totals” include all adherents in the denominations counted by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and estimates adherent totals for the historically African-American denominations and other religious groups not listed in the ASARB totals. An article by Roger Finke and Christopher P. Scheitle (2005) reviews how these estimates were computed.

^†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.

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