South Dakota Black Population By County, 2018
Updated on January 29, 2024.

According to the US Census Bureau estimates, 19,793 (2.25%) of the 879,386 South Dakota population in 2018 identified as Black or African American alone.

In the map below, we show the specific number of Blacks or African Americans per county in South Dakota. We also show the percentage of the population of each county that are African American and the gender percentages of the African American population when you interact with the map.

Minnehaha County had the highest number of African Americans (11,735), and African Americans constituted 6.14% of the county's population. Other counties with high number of African Americans include: Pennington County (1,641) - 1.46% of the county's population, and Lincoln County (896) - 1.52% of the county's population.

The data can also be found in the table below. You can use the table to sort, filter, and explore the data further.

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South Dakota Black Population By County, 2018
South Dakota Black Population By County, 2018
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County Black Population % of County Population
Aurora 20 0.72
Beadle 268 1.47
Bennett 16 0.46
Bon Homme 95 1.37
Brookings 550 1.56
Brown 855 2.19
Brule 25 0.48
Buffalo 14 0.69
Butte 64 0.62
Campbell 4 0.29
Charles Mix 36 0.39
Clark 64 1.72
Clay 227 1.62
Codington 200 0.71
Corson 19 0.46
Custer 49 0.56
Davison 181 0.91
Day 22 0.4
Deuel 36 0.83
Dewey 23 0.39
Douglas 16 0.55
Edmunds 12 0.31
Fall River 81 1.2
Faulk 12 0.52
Grant 44 0.62
Gregory 17 0.41
Haakon 5 0.27
Hamlin 31 0.51
Hand 4 0.12
Hanson 16 0.48
Harding 17 1.36
Hughes 130 0.74
Hutchinson 66 0.91
Hyde 7 0.55
Jackson 29 0.89
Jerauld 10 0.5
Jones 3 0.33
Kingsbury 21 0.43
Lake 140 1.07
Lawrence 223 0.87
Lincoln 896 1.52
Lyman 27 0.71
McCook 48 0.86
McPherson 19 0.79
Marshall 35 0.72
Meade 591 2.09
Mellette 7 0.34
Miner 17 0.77
Minnehaha 11735 6.14
Moody 80 1.24
Oglala Lakota 34 0.24
Pennington 1641 1.46
Perkins 15 0.52
Potter 11 0.5
Roberts 64 0.62
Sanborn 5 0.21
Spink 43 0.67
Stanley 22 0.73
Sully 6 0.44
Todd 47 0.46
Tripp 30 0.55
Turner 51 0.61
Union 197 1.26
Walworth 23 0.42
Yankton 484 2.12
Ziebach 13 0.47