Metro Area Membership Report

Maps & Reports > Select Metro Area > Metro Area Report

Sioux Falls, SD MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

17,700 55,356 232 35,042 1,249 62,833
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.
[More information on the data sources]

Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 44 30,891 250.4
Catholic Church Catholic 17 21,499 174.3
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 15 7,107 57.6
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 8 2,569 20.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 7 3,863 31.3
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 7 2,982 24.2
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 6 1,934 15.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 6 2,662 21.6
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 4 1,141 9.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 3 1,103 8.9
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 3 630 5.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 2 447 3.6
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 463 3.8
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 2 1,312 10.6
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 2 324 2.6
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant 2 175 1.4
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 2 859 7.0
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 1 75 0.6
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 1 432 3.5
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 1 110 0.9
Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 1 150 1.2
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 1 79 0.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 1 44 0.4
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 95 0.8
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 1 123 1.0
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 1 804 6.5
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 1 30 0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 1 61 0.5
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 1 73 0.6
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 1 286 2.3
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 1 158 1.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 1 597 4.8
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 1 93 0.8
Totals (Unadjusted)*: 148 83,171  

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 123,377. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (83,171) include 67.4% 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.