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Rapid City, SD MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

14,681 14,662   24,694 1,544 32,984
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
Catholic Church Catholic 10 11,692 166.2
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 5 5,488 78.0
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 10 3,561 50.6
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 2,909 41.3
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 5 2,167 30.8
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 3 1,728 24.6
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 1,383 19.7
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,165 16.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 889 12.6
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 763 10.8
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 3 626 8.9
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 600 8.5
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 540 7.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 467 6.6
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 430 6.1
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 417 5.9
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 216 3.1
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 3 214 3.0
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 4 166 2.4
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 141 2.0
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 1 139 2.0
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 101 1.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 71 1.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant 1 71 1.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 60 0.9
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 1 49 0.7
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 47 0.7
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant n.a. 20 0.3
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 75 36,120  

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 70,361. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (36,120) include 51.3% 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.