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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 % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -5 -2,701 -30.0%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant +8 +1,852 33.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,506 146.0%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -3 +481 15.0%
Catholic Church Catholic -16 +43,047 31.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +179 20.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -29 -4.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +575 39.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant -1 +413 11.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +2 -505 -46.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +157 29.0%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant +1 +118 162.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant +3 +90 n.a.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +3 +3,408 132.0%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant +2 -518 -34.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +4 +396 42.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant +1 +33 n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -37 -1,898 -14.0%
Evangelical Covenant Church, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +308 52.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +6 +1,514 325.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -17 +5,056 4.0%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 -120 -71.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 -334 -77.0%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox +1 +222 n.a.
Hutterian Brethren Evangelical Protestant +54 +5,400 n.a.
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -2 +1,145 307.0%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +135 63.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +3 -2,249 -7.0%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant +1 +467 52.0%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant +1 -71 -43.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists Evangelical Protestant +1 0 n.a.
Netherlands Reformed Congregations Evangelical Protestant +2 +268 n.a.
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant +3 +468 12.0%
Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Evangelical Protestant -1 +16 5.0%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant +2 +65 n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -11 -5,402 -30.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +7 +1,133 1349.0%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +778 12.0%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant +11 +1,244 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +848 43.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -283 -12.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +18 +2,295 53.0%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 +23 26.0%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -11 -4,763 -23.0%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -14 -8,891 -19.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches Mainline Protestant +1 +24 48.0%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant +31 +7,865 n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -762 -7.0%
  Totals: 59 +53,003 +11.7%

The population of these 66 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 690,768; in 2000 it was 754,844. The total population changed 8.5%. The adherent totals for 1980 (456,522) represent 66.1% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (511,886) include 67.8% of the 2000 population. There is sufficient data for 48 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 48 groups had 453,444 adherents in 1980 and 506,447 adherents in 2000, for a change of 11.7%

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 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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