Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are Black or African American Alone in 2018

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2018, among all South Dakota counties, Minnehaha County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their race as Black or African American Alone (6.14%), followed by Brown County (2.19%), and Yankton County (2.12%).

The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all South Dakota counties.

You can see similar ranking information for other racial and ethnicity groups in the United States.

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Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Black or African American Alone Population in 2018

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Data Source: US Census Bureau (Vintage).

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Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Black or African American Alone in 2018

Minnehaha

Brown

Yankton

Meade

Clark

Clay

Brookings

Lincoln

Beadle

Pennington

Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Black or African American Alone in 2018

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Rank	County	% of County Population
1	Minnehaha County	6.14
2	Brown County	2.19
3	Yankton County	2.12
4	Meade County	2.09
5	Clark County	1.72
6	Clay County	1.62
7	Brookings County	1.56
8	Lincoln County	1.52
9	Beadle County	1.47
10	Pennington County	1.46
11	Bon Homme County	1.37
12	Harding County	1.36
13	Union County	1.26
14	Moody County	1.24
15	Fall River County	1.2
16	Lake County	1.07
17	Davison County	0.91
17	Hutchinson County	0.91
18	Jackson County	0.89
19	Lawrence County	0.87
20	McCook County	0.86
21	Deuel County	0.83
22	McPherson County	0.79
23	Miner County	0.77
24	Hughes County	0.74
25	Stanley County	0.73
26	Aurora County	0.72
26	Marshall County	0.72
27	Codington County	0.71
27	Lyman County	0.71
28	Buffalo County	0.69
29	Spink County	0.67
30	Butte County	0.62
30	Grant County	0.62
30	Roberts County	0.62
31	Turner County	0.61
32	Custer County	0.56
33	Douglas County	0.55
33	Hyde County	0.55
33	Tripp County	0.55
34	Faulk County	0.52
34	Perkins County	0.52
35	Hamlin County	0.51
36	Jerauld County	0.5
36	Potter County	0.5
37	Brule County	0.48
37	Hanson County	0.48
38	Ziebach County	0.47
39	Bennett County	0.46
39	Corson County	0.46
39	Todd County	0.46
40	Sully County	0.44
41	Kingsbury County	0.43
42	Walworth County	0.42
43	Gregory County	0.41
44	Day County	0.4
45	Charles Mix County	0.39
45	Dewey County	0.39
46	Mellette County	0.34
47	Jones County	0.33
48	Edmunds County	0.31
49	Campbell County	0.29
50	Haakon County	0.27
51	Oglala Lakota County	0.24
52	Sanborn County	0.21
53	Hand County	0.12