Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that were White 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, Hanson County had the highest percentage of its population that identified their race as White Alone (96.22%), followed by Kingsbury County (95.70%), and Hand County (95.58%).

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 White 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 White Alone from Census 2020
Hanson
Kingsbury
Hand
Edmunds
Hutchinson
Miner
Faulk
Deuel
Spink
McPherson
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that were White Alone from Census 2020
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Rank County White Alone % of County Pop.
1 Hanson County 96.22
2 Kingsbury County 95.70
3 Hand County 95.58
4 Edmunds County 95.38
5 Hutchinson County 95.17
6 Miner County 95.13
7 Faulk County 94.78
8 Deuel County 94.72
9 Spink County 94.70
10 McPherson County 94.36
11 Clark County 94.27
12 Potter County 94.22
13 Douglas County 93.97
14 Sanborn County 93.82
15 Perkins County 93.79
16 Jerauld County 93.63
17 McCook County 93.63
18 Turner County 93.50
19 Sully County 93.36
20 Campbell County 93.10
21 Hamlin County 92.91
22 Harding County 92.60
23 Codington County 92.11
24 Haakon County 91.88
25 Lake County 91.67
26 Custer County 91.19
27 Butte County 90.98
28 Grant County 90.60
29 Lincoln County 90.54
30 Lawrence County 90.50
31 Union County 90.01
32 Davison County 89.15
33 Aurora County 88.93
34 Bon Homme County 88.45
35 Yankton County 88.26
36 Brookings County 88.12
37 Gregory County 87.73
38 Hyde County 86.53
39 Brown County 86.41
40 Meade County 86.18
41 Stanley County 86.17
42 Fall River County 85.93
43 Clay County 85.58
44 Day County 84.92
45 Jones County 84.73
46 Marshall County 84.26
47 Brule County 83.19
48 Minnehaha County 80.30
49 Hughes County 80.11
50 Walworth County 77.89
51 Pennington County 77.42
52 Tripp County 76.90
53 Moody County 76.50
54 Beadle County 72.39
55 Charles Mix County 61.36
56 Roberts County 54.52
57 Lyman County 51.61
58 Jackson County 37.38
59 Mellette County 34.15
60 Bennett County 29.90
61 Corson County 24.53
62 Ziebach County 16.87
63 Dewey County 16.32
64 Buffalo County 14.68
65 Todd County 7.62
66 Oglala Lakota County 3.26