Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020

Updated on February 25, 2023.

According to the data from the United States 2020 decennial Census for South Dakota counties, in April 2020, among all South Dakota counties, Minnehaha County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as Black or African American Alone (5.85%), followed by Brookings County (1.85%), and Lincoln County (1.74%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all South Dakota counties based on the percentage of the population that identified as Black or African American Alone.

You can see similar ranking information for other states. You can also see similar rankings of counties for other racial groups as well as for the different ethnicities in South Dakota.

Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
Minnehaha
Brookings
Lincoln
Clay
Bon Homme
Meade
Brown
Yankton
Pennington
Union
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were Black or African American Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County Black Alone % of County Pop.
1 Minnehaha County 5.85
2 Brookings County 1.85
3 Lincoln County 1.74
4 Clay County 1.57
5 Bon Homme County 1.53
6 Meade County 1.49
7 Brown County 1.48
8 Yankton County 1.36
9 Pennington County 1.30
10 Union County 1.02
11 Lake County 0.97
12 Beadle County 0.86
13 Davison County 0.79
14 Brule County 0.63
15 Lawrence County 0.52
16 Aurora County 0.51
17 Hughes County 0.51
18 Fall River County 0.50
19 Jones County 0.44
20 Turner County 0.43
21 Codington County 0.41
22 Stanley County 0.40
23 Custer County 0.39
24 Jackson County 0.39
25 Spink County 0.39
26 Harding County 0.38
27 Sully County 0.35
28 Hyde County 0.32
29 Roberts County 0.32
30 Clark County 0.31
31 Edmunds County 0.30
32 Moody County 0.30
33 Douglas County 0.25
34 Walworth County 0.25
35 Potter County 0.24
36 Deuel County 0.23
37 Gregory County 0.23
38 Hand County 0.22
39 Bennett County 0.21
40 Oglala Lakota County 0.18
41 Tripp County 0.18
42 Charles Mix County 0.17
43 Dewey County 0.17
44 Miner County 0.17
45 McCook County 0.16
46 Marshall County 0.16
47 Corson County 0.15
48 Kingsbury County 0.15
49 Hanson County 0.14
50 Day County 0.13
51 Butte County 0.12
52 Hutchinson County 0.12
53 McPherson County 0.12
54 Haakon County 0.11
55 Todd County 0.11
56 Faulk County 0.09
57 Sanborn County 0.09
58 Hamlin County 0.08
59 Lyman County 0.08
60 Perkins County 0.07
61 Jerauld County 0.06
62 Mellette County 0.05
63 Grant County 0.04
64 Buffalo County 0.00
65 Campbell County 0.00
66 Ziebach County 0.00