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Beadle County, South Dakota - County Membership Report (2010)

Exact definitions of "congregations" and "adherents" vary by religious body. Congregations may be parishes, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, or another site where a religious body has regularly scheduled worship services. Adherents generally are members, children who are not members, and others who are not members but are considered participants in the congregation.

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Religious Bodies Tradition Family Congregations Adherents Adherence Rate
Catholic Church Catholic Catholic Liturgical Family 2 2,235 128.46
United Methodist Church Mainline Protestant Methodist Family 4 1,625 93.40
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 3 1,361 78.23
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant Lutheran Family 2 1,319 75.81
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant Presbyterian/Reformed Family 5 807 46.38
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of Evangelical Protestant Mennonite/Amish Family 2 519 29.83
American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. Mainline Protestant Baptist Family 1 370 21.27
Salvation Army Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 366 21.04
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 1 306 17.59
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant Congregationalists (United Church of Christ) Family 1 261 15.00
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) Family 1 223 12.82
Christian and Missionary Alliance Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 214 12.30
Assemblies of God, General Council of the Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 130 7.47
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant Baptist Family 3 126 7.24
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 1 98 5.63
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 88 5.06
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant Anglican/Episcopal Family 1 81 4.66
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant Adventist Family 1 76 4.37
Non-denominational Christian Churches Evangelical Protestant Other Groups Family 1 69 3.97
Open Bible Churches Evangelical Protestant Pentecostal Family 1 67 3.85
Wesleyan Church Evangelical Protestant Holiness Family 1 48 2.76
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant Lutheran Family 1 33 1.90
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant Restorationists Family 1 30 1.72
Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses Adventist Family 1
Hutterian Brethren Evangelical Protestant Communal Family 2
           

Religious Traditions (1980 - 2020), Percent of Population


The population of this county was 17,398 in 2010. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (10,452) included 60.1% of the total population in 2010. The adherence rate is the number of adherents of a given group per 1,000 people in the general population.

Note that data collection methods for religious bodies change over time, affecting the comparability of statistics. For further information, see the U.S. Religion Census website at https://www.usreligioncensus.org/.

The 2020 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include data for 372 religious bodies or groups. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 and on congregations only for 155.

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