South Dakota
Denominational Groups, 2000
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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
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| Religious Bodies |
Theology |
Congregations |
Adherents |
% Change |
| American Baptist Churches in the USA |
Mainline Protestant |
+1 |
-2,080 |
-24.5% |
| Assemblies of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+684 |
10.1% |
| Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+700 |
38.1% |
| Baptist General Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
-4 |
-50 |
-1.4% |
| Catholic Church |
Catholic |
-19 |
+37,658 |
26.2% |
| Christian and Missionary Alliance, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-51 |
-4.5% |
| Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+164 |
30.1% |
| Christian Churches and Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+432 |
26.7% |
| Christian Reformed Church in North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-3 |
+386 |
9.9% |
| Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-35 |
-5.5% |
| Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+91 |
15.0% |
| Church of God in Christ, Mennonite |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+68 |
55.3% |
| Church of God of Prophecy |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-77 |
-46.1% |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The |
Other Theology |
-2 |
+843 |
16.4% |
| Church of the Nazarene |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-618 |
-38.0% |
| Churches of Christ |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+153 |
13.0% |
| Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) |
Mainline Protestant |
-1 |
-28 |
-45.9% |
| Episcopal Church |
Mainline Protestant |
-13 |
-749 |
-6.3% |
| Evangelical Free Church of America, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+3 |
+514 |
35.1% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
-14 |
+7,181 |
6.3% |
| Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-30 |
-37.5% |
| Free Methodist Church of North America |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-65 |
-39.2% |
| Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
Orthodox |
0 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Hutterian Brethren |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+400 |
8.0% |
| International Church of the Foursquare Gospel |
Evangelical Protestant |
-1 |
+1,052 |
225.8% |
| Jewish Estimate |
Other Theology |
-1 |
+215 |
159.3% |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
-1,444 |
-4.4% |
| Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
+60 |
4.6% |
| Mennonite Church USA |
Evangelical Protestant |
-6 |
-803 |
-27.1% |
| Missionary Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-29 |
-23.6% |
| National Association of Free Will Baptists |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-32 |
n.a. |
| Netherlands Reformed Congregations |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+12 |
4.7% |
| North American Baptist Conference |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-45 |
-1.0% |
| Pentecostal Church of God |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-242 |
-78.8% |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
Mainline Protestant |
-6 |
-2,710 |
-17.5% |
| Presbyterian Church in America |
Evangelical Protestant |
+4 |
+143 |
13.3% |
| Reformed Church in America |
Mainline Protestant |
0 |
+50 |
0.7% |
| Reformed Church in the United States |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
-6 |
-0.5% |
| Salvation Army, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
+1 |
+2,072 |
283.1% |
| Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
-245 |
-10.5% |
| Southern Baptist Convention |
Evangelical Protestant |
+2 |
-692 |
-9.5% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations |
Other Theology |
-1 |
+14 |
14.3% |
| United Church of Christ |
Mainline Protestant |
-7 |
-2,620 |
-14.1% |
| United Methodist Church, The |
Mainline Protestant |
-11 |
-5,932 |
-13.7% |
| Wesleyan Church, The |
Evangelical Protestant |
0 |
+2,322 |
41.9% |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Evangelical Protestant |
-2 |
-596 |
-5.8% |
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Totals:
-78
| +36,035 |
+7.7% |
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The population of these 66 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 696,004; in 2000 it was 754,844. The total population changed 8.5%. The adherent totals for 1990 (474,010) represent 68.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (511,886) include 67.8% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 45 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 45 groups had 471,022 adherents in 1990 and 507,057 adherents in 2000, for a change of 7.7%
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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