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^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	271	143,776	206.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	273	114,690	164.8
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	175	43,212	62.1
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	114	32,968	47.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	98	18,607	26.7
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	91	15,473	22.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	98	11,940	17.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	59	10,358	14.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	34	8,497	12.2
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	26	7,466	10.7
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	45	7,300	10.5
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	52	6,754	9.7
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	31	5,543	8.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	33	5,155	7.4
Hutterian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	50	5,000	7.2
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	23	4,351	6.3
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	17	3,911	5.6
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	19	3,684	5.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,966	4.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	24	2,343	3.4
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	18	1,835	2.6
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,626	2.3
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	15	1,617	2.3
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	12	1,466	2.1
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	11	1,303	1.9
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	10	1,250	1.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	24	1,175	1.7
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	1,144	1.6
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,074	1.5
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	850	1.2
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	12	821	1.2
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	732	1.1
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	6	640	0.9
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	11	608	0.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	2	544	0.8
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	2	470	0.7
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	4	466	0.7
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	4	307	0.4
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	2	256	0.4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	231	0.3
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	210	0.3
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	5	166	0.2
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	3	167	0.2
Berean Fundamental Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	151	0.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	4	135	0.2
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	3	123	0.2
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite	Evangelical Protestant	1	123	0.2
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	4	98	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.1
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	80	0.1
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	61	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	2	46	0.1
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	39	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	2	37	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	1	32	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	24	0.0
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	24	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	5	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	11	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	1,781	474,010

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 696,004. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (474,010) include 68.1% of the total population in 1990.

Source

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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^†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.