Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population with British Ancestry in 2021

Updated on April 16, 2025.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, there were 2.38K people in South Dakota with British ancestry (0.27% of South Dakota population). Among all South Dakota counties, Mellette County had the highest percentage of its population with British ancestry (1.10%), followed by Deuel County (0.79%), and Bennett County (0.76%).

The chart and table below shows the top 10 counties with high percentage of its population having British ancestry.

You can see similar information for other states and for other ancestry groups in South Dakota.

Data Source: US Census Bureau.
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population with British Ancestry in 2021
Mellette County
Deuel County
Bennett County
Custer County
Gregory County
Jerauld County
Haakon County
Hughes County
Moody County
Aurora County
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population with British Ancestry in 2021
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Rank County Percentage of Pop. (%)
1 Mellette County 1.10
2 Deuel County 0.79
3 Bennett County 0.76
4 Custer County 0.66
5 Gregory County 0.65
6 Jerauld County 0.61
7 Haakon County 0.59
8 Hughes County 0.57
8 Moody County 0.57
9 Aurora County 0.53
10 Pennington County 0.51
11 Hand County 0.43
12 Harding County 0.42
13 Lawrence County 0.41
14 Day County 0.40
14 Grant County 0.40
15 Miner County 0.39
16 Meade County 0.35
17 Beadle County 0.30
18 Minnehaha County 0.29
19 Stanley County 0.27
19 Union County 0.27
20 Yankton County 0.26
21 Codington County 0.24
22 Lincoln County 0.23
22 Spink County 0.23
23 Brown County 0.21
24 Brookings County 0.19
24 Hutchinson County 0.19
25 Sanborn County 0.17
25 Turner County 0.17
26 Hamlin County 0.15
27 Fall River County 0.14
28 Bon Homme County 0.13
28 McPherson County 0.13
29 Marshall County 0.11
30 Edmunds County 0.10
31 Hanson County 0.09
31 Walworth County 0.09
32 Brule County 0.08
33 Perkins County 0.07
34 Clark County 0.05
34 Corson County 0.05
35 Dewey County 0.04
36 Lyman County 0.03
37 Davison County 0.02
37 Kingsbury County 0.02