South Dakota

Denominational Groups, 2000

108,838	213,840	232	181,434	7,542	242,958
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^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	40	9,118	13.2
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	2	85	0.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	43	5,586	8.1
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,029	1.5
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	18	3,153	4.6
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	76	0.1
Catholic Church	Catholic	268	138,387	200.3
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	11	914	1.3
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	737	1.1
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	16	1,474	2.1
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	15	3,884	5.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,110	1.6
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	11	542	0.8
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	1	56	0.1
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	73	0.1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	28	2,590	3.8
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	179	0.3
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	11	861	1.3
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,526	2.2
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	20	932	1.4
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	122	13,089	19.0
Evangelical Covenant Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	8	587	0.9
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	9	466	0.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	276	116,815	169.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	150	0.2
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	170	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	435	0.6
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	31	0.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	5	373	0.5
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	3	215	0.3
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	113	33,773	48.9
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	8	896	1.3
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	165	0.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	20	3,838	5.6
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,640	2.4
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	346	0.5
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	96	18,165	26.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	1	84	0.1
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	26	6,738	9.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,956	2.8
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	23	2,381	3.5
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	29	4,313	6.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	3	89	0.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	102	20,750	30.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	178	46,171	66.8
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	1	50	0.1
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	57	10,524	15.2
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,636	456,522

The population of these counties (or equivalent) in 1980 was 690,768. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (456,522) include 66.1% 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.