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

Updated on April 16, 2025.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, there were 57.92K people in South Dakota with English ancestry (6.57% of South Dakota population). Among all South Dakota counties, Butte County had the highest percentage of its population with English ancestry (14.00%), followed by Sully County (13.29%), and Fall River County (13.27%).

The chart and table below shows the top 10 counties with high percentage of its population having English 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 English Ancestry in 2021
Butte County
Sully County
Fall River County
Hand County
Custer County
Spink County
Pennington County
Jones County
Lawrence County
Clark County
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population with English Ancestry in 2021
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Rank County Percentage of Pop. (%)
1 Butte County 14.00
2 Sully County 13.29
3 Fall River County 13.27
4 Hand County 11.60
5 Custer County 10.23
6 Spink County 10.13
7 Pennington County 9.75
8 Jones County 9.06
9 Lawrence County 8.81
10 Clark County 8.55
11 Hughes County 7.91
12 Jerauld County 7.84
13 Meade County 7.82
14 Brookings County 7.80
15 Hyde County 7.60
16 Perkins County 7.59
17 Harding County 7.55
18 Clay County 7.17
18 Sanborn County 7.17
19 Union County 7.14
20 Beadle County 6.76
21 Davison County 6.46
22 Lake County 6.40
23 Lincoln County 6.36
24 Tripp County 6.32
25 Faulk County 6.31
26 Aurora County 6.27
27 Potter County 6.20
28 Minnehaha County 6.14
29 Bennett County 6.04
30 Edmunds County 5.99
31 Stanley County 5.94
32 Gregory County 5.89
33 Moody County 5.86
34 Brown County 5.50
34 Hamlin County 5.50
35 Kingsbury County 5.44
36 Yankton County 5.39
37 Miner County 5.28
38 Codington County 5.18
39 Brule County 5.11
40 Haakon County 5.09
41 McPherson County 5.08
42 Deuel County 4.97
43 McCook County 4.74
44 Mellette County 4.64
45 Bon Homme County 4.46
46 Day County 4.45
47 Grant County 4.44
48 Jackson County 4.25
49 Turner County 4.15
50 Hanson County 4.08
51 Walworth County 4.07
52 Roberts County 3.06
53 Lyman County 2.96
54 Marshall County 2.72
55 Charles Mix County 2.22
55 Douglas County 2.22
56 Ziebach County 2.18
57 Campbell County 2.13
58 Hutchinson County 2.00
59 Dewey County 1.01
60 Corson County 0.76
61 Todd County 0.57
62 Buffalo County 0.51
63 Oglala Lakota County 0.29