South Dakota has 1,515 church listings in the Churches List directory, spread across 280 cities and towns. 58 listings are verified, 1,446 include a phone number, and 298 publish a website. The 2020 US Religion Census counted 1,943 congregations of 97 religious bodies in South Dakota, with 490,924 reported adherents across 66 counties. 30 South Dakota church buildings hold National Register of Historic Places listings@if ($wayback > 0), and 0 of the state's church websites were already archived by the Internet Archive before 2001@endif.
| Religious body | Congregations | Adherents |
|---|---|---|
| Catholic Church | 189 | 132,805 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | 205 | 97,189 |
| Non-denominational Christian Churches | 281 | 63,992 |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod | 107 | 27,410 |
| Wesleyan Church | 33 | 27,042 |
| United Methodist Church | 145 | 25,345 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 30 | 10,610 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod | 44 | 9,630 |
| United Church of Christ | 66 | 9,297 |
| Assemblies of God | 50 | 9,192 |
| Reformed Church in America | 28 | 7,769 |
| Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) | 74 | 7,447 |
| Schmiedeleut Hutterite Group 2 | 59 | 7,037 |
| Episcopal Church | 73 | 7,036 |
| Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ | 42 | 5,158 |
| Tradition | Listings |
|---|---|
| Lutheran | 349 |
| Catholic | 236 |
| Baptist Churches | 126 |
| Methodist | 97 |
| United Methodist | 89 |
| Non-Denominational | 84 |
| Episcopal | 65 |
| Presbyterian | 48 |
| Evangelical | 44 |
| United Church of Christ | 41 |
| Assemblies of God | 34 |
| Other Christian Services | 34 |
| Seventh Day Adventist | 28 |
| Wesleyan | 25 |
| Church of Christ | 25 |
Directory figures are live counts from the Churches List database for South Dakota (SD) as of June 2026. Congregations and adherents come from the 2020 US Religion Census, a county-level enumeration reported by religious bodies and aggregated here to the state; its methodology differs from a directory count and the two will not match. Historic-register counts join National Register of Historic Places listings to directory churches. Statistics for other states: Texas · California · Pennsylvania · North Carolina · Ohio · Florida · Illinois · Georgia · New York · Michigan. See also the national statistics page, the South Dakota directory, and dataset licensing.