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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
Hutterian Brethren Evangelical Protestant +4 +400 8.0%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant +4 +143 13.3%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +3 +514 35.1%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant +2 -1,444 -4.4%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant +2 -692 -9.5%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant +1 -2,080 -24.5%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +700 38.1%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +432 26.7%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant +1 -35 -5.5%
Church of God in Christ, Mennonite Evangelical Protestant +1 +68 55.3%
Reformed Church in the United States Evangelical Protestant +1 -6 -0.5%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +2,072 283.1%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 +164 30.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +91 15.0%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 -77 -46.1%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 -618 -38.0%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +153 13.0%
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 -30 -37.5%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
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%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 +50 0.7%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -245 -10.5%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +2,322 41.9%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -1 +684 10.1%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body) Mainline Protestant -1 -28 -45.9%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant -1 +1,052 225.8%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -1 +215 159.3%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 +14 14.3%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant -2 -51 -4.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology -2 +843 16.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -2 -65 -39.2%
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant -2 +60 4.6%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -2 -242 -78.8%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant -2 -596 -5.8%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant -3 +386 9.9%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -4 -50 -1.4%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant -6 -803 -27.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -6 -2,710 -17.5%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -7 -2,620 -14.1%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -11 -5,932 -13.7%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant -13 -749 -6.3%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -14 +7,181 6.3%
Catholic Church Catholic -19 +37,658 26.2%
  Totals: -78 +36,035 +7.7%

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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