Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2013

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2013, among all South Dakota counties, Oglala Lakota County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their ethnicity as Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native (91.88%), followed by Todd County (85.55%), and Buffalo County (79.7%).

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

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Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2013
Oglala Lakota
Todd
Buffalo
Dewey
Ziebach
Corson
Bennett
Mellette
Jackson
Lyman
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2013
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Oglala Lakota County 91.88
2 Todd County 85.55
3 Buffalo County 79.7
4 Dewey County 72.37
5 Ziebach County 69.53
6 Corson County 62.55
7 Bennett County 59.13
8 Mellette County 53.91
9 Jackson County 51.58
10 Lyman County 37.21
11 Roberts County 35.11
12 Charles Mix County 30.97
13 Walworth County 13.46
14 Tripp County 13.1
15 Moody County 12.68
16 Hughes County 9.55
17 Brule County 8.98
18 Day County 8.96
19 Pennington County 8.83
20 Hyde County 8.77
21 Stanley County 8.48
22 Marshall County 7.43
23 Bon Homme County 7.39
24 Gregory County 6.85
25 Fall River County 6.43
26 Custer County 3.07
27 Brown County 3.06
28 Clay County 2.94
29 Jones County 2.88
30 Yankton County 2.51
31 Meade County 2.48
32 Davison County 2.43
33 Minnehaha County 2.36
34 Harding County 2.22
35 Douglas County 2.12
36 Codington County 1.96
37 Lawrence County 1.95
37 Sully County 1.95
38 Perkins County 1.89
39 Aurora County 1.88
40 Haakon County 1.76
41 Potter County 1.48
42 Butte County 1.46
43 Spink County 1.23
44 Brookings County 1.08
45 Beadle County 0.86
45 Lake County 0.86
46 Hutchinson County 0.83
47 Campbell County 0.66
48 Grant County 0.65
49 Kingsbury County 0.61
50 Turner County 0.6
51 Union County 0.57
52 Edmunds County 0.55
53 McCook County 0.54
54 Lincoln County 0.48
55 Hand County 0.47
56 Jerauld County 0.43
57 Hamlin County 0.37
58 Deuel County 0.3
58 Sanborn County 0.3
59 Hanson County 0.29
60 Miner County 0.26
61 McPherson County 0.17
62 Faulk County 0.13
63 Clark County 0.08