Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2023

Updated on August 12, 2024.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2023, 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 (87.41%), followed by Todd County (82.24%), and Buffalo County (78.98%).

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 2023
Oglala Lakota
Todd
Buffalo
Dewey
Ziebach
Corson
Bennett
Jackson
Mellette
Lyman
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2023
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Oglala Lakota County 87.41
2 Todd County 82.24
3 Buffalo County 78.98
4 Dewey County 70.83
5 Ziebach County 65.94
6 Corson County 63.01
7 Bennett County 56.76
8 Jackson County 51.69
9 Mellette County 51.32
10 Lyman County 36.76
11 Roberts County 35.05
12 Charles Mix County 28.67
13 Tripp County 14.41
14 Walworth County 14.06
15 Moody County 12.2
16 Hughes County 11.89
17 Brule County 11.03
18 Hyde County 10.37
19 Day County 8.71
20 Pennington County 8.57
21 Bon Homme County 7.79
22 Gregory County 7.27
23 Jones County 6.67
24 Marshall County 6.26
25 Stanley County 6.21
26 Fall River County 5.45
27 Sully County 3.41
28 Clay County 3.35
29 Brown County 3.28
30 Haakon County 3.19
31 Custer County 3.07
32 Davison County 3.03
33 Potter County 2.86
34 Harding County 2.8
35 Meade County 2.74
36 Aurora County 2.62
37 Yankton County 2.56
38 Codington County 2.48
39 Minnehaha County 2.34
40 Douglas County 2.19
41 Butte County 2.18
42 Perkins County 1.98
43 Lawrence County 1.9
44 Campbell County 1.57
45 Lake County 1.38
46 Hutchinson County 1.18
47 McCook County 1.17
48 Grant County 1.13
49 Beadle County 1.1
50 Edmunds County 1.09
51 Brookings County 1.08
52 Jerauld County 0.96
52 Sanborn County 0.96
52 Spink County 0.96
53 McPherson County 0.94
54 Kingsbury County 0.93
55 Hanson County 0.86
56 Union County 0.8
57 Turner County 0.7
58 Lincoln County 0.68
59 Deuel County 0.67
60 Hamlin County 0.62
61 Hand County 0.61
62 Clark County 0.53
63 Miner County 0.48
64 Faulk County 0.47