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	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+11,021	80.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+386	30.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+72	118.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+73	15.4%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	-1	0	0.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-28	-29.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-6	-7.1%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	-24	-44.4%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-73	-61.9%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-35	-15.2%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-124	-12.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	6.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+614	21.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	0	+72	66.7%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+71	19.1%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+115	86.5%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+103	18.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-1,242	-29.7%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+570	54.2%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+109	16.3%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	-61	-13.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-90	-7.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,356	22.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-102	-5.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-186	-13.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-2	-674	-20.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+1	+127	10.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+80	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+17	81.0%
	Totals:	+2	+12,144	+28.3%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 81,343; in 2000 it was 88,565. The total population changed 8.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (43,485) represent 53.5% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (55,581) include 62.8% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 29 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 29 groups had 42,933 adherents in 1990 and 55,077 adherents in 2000, for a change of 28.3%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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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