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
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+10,586	43.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	+1	+4,135	12.5%
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+539	18.1%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+527	38.8%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+482	283.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+454	11.4%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+2	+357	63.1%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+342	44.5%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+284	35.5%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+241	446.3%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+230	66.7%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+207	105.1%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+198	13.7%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+198	146.7%
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	0	+135	435.5%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+131	19.8%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	+127	30.3%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+120	26.1%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	+116	12.6%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	0	+105	477.3%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+85	88.5%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	-1	+60	44.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+38	42.2%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+7	2.5%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+5	8.2%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+4	7.0%
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-15	-53.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-31	-1.8%
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	0	-34	-40.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-37	-60.7%
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-52	-32.9%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	+1	-153	-5.9%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-156	-10.1%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+1	-359	-5.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	+1	-899	-30.6%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+11	+17,977	+20.0%

The population of these 2 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 139,236; in 2000 it was 172,412. The total population changed 23.8%. The adherent totals for 1990 (90,359) represent 64.9% of the 1990 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 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 35 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 35 groups had 89,870 adherents in 1990 and 107,847 adherents in 2000, for a change of 20.0%

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 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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