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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
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 9 3,366 41.4
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 9 4,177 51.4
Catholic Church Catholic 9 13,673 168.1
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 7 6,123 75.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 6 2,918 35.9
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 5 1,362 16.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 4 1,857 22.8
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 4 1,051 12.9
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 4 1,285 15.8
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 3 1,227 15.1
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 3 999 12.3
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 2 231 2.8
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 2 1,214 14.9
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 2 185 2.3
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 2 456 5.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 95 1.2
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 85 1.0
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 1 54 0.7
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 473 5.8
Church of the Lutheran Confession Evangelical Protestant 1 52 0.6
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 61 0.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 118 1.5
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 13 0.2
Church of Christ, Scientist Other Theology 1 n.a. n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 46 0.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 670 8.2
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 0 0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant 1 108 1.3
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 21 0.3
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 1 372 4.6
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 1 n.a. n.a.
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 573 7.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 133 1.6
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada Evangelical Protestant 1 39 0.5
Black Baptists Estimate Evangelical Protestant n.a. 448 5.5
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 90 43,485  
The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 81,343. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (43,485) include 53.5% 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.