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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.
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Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant 0 -623 -23.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +787 92.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +652 n.a.
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +76 6.0%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +13,543 63.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -51 -8.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +108 148.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant +1 +784 71.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 +53 71.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +31 70.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +491 114.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +1 -27 -29.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +2 +238 250.0%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -1 -104 -9.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +385 220.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +216 273.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant +3 +6,290 20.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -99 -80.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +222 n.a.
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +37 23.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 +562 14.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +1 +127 n.a.
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +13 n.a.
Netherlands Reformed Congregations Evangelical Protestant +1 +51 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +647 140.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant 0 -534 -18.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +2 +579 n.a.
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant +1 +942 37.0%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant +1 +166 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -400 -50.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -4 -1.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 +251 78.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 0 0.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant 0 -238 -12.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -255 -4.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant 0 +16 53.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +2 +1,084 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +347 78.0%
  Totals: +34 +26,363 +32.0%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 123,377; in 2000 it was 172,412. The total population changed 23.8%. The adherent totals for 1980 (83,171) represent 67.4% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (109,579) include 63.6% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 38 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 38 groups had 82,281 adherents in 1980 and 108,644 adherents in 2000, for a change of 32.0%

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 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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