Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Non-Hispanic White Population in 2019

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2019, among all South Dakota counties, Minnehaha County had the highest number of people who identified their ethnicity as Non-Hispanic White (158.27K), followed by Pennington County (91.14K), and Lincoln County (56.43K).

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 Non-Hispanic White Population in 2019
Minnehaha
Pennington
Lincoln
Brown
Brookings
Codington
Meade
Lawrence
Yankton
Davison
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Non-Hispanic White Population in 2019
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Rank County Non-Hispanic White Population
1 Minnehaha County 158270
2 Pennington County 91143
3 Lincoln County 56426
4 Brown County 33394
5 Brookings County 31717
6 Codington County 25790
7 Meade County 24790
8 Lawrence County 23375
9 Yankton County 19994
10 Davison County 17892
11 Union County 14552
12 Hughes County 14280
13 Beadle County 13786
14 Clay County 12269
15 Lake County 11823
16 Butte County 9474
17 Custer County 7998
18 Turner County 7881
19 Hutchinson County 6865
20 Grant County 6552
21 Spink County 5969
22 Bon Homme County 5963
23 Roberts County 5816
24 Charles Mix County 5811
25 Hamlin County 5761
26 Fall River County 5647
27 McCook County 5184
28 Moody County 5039
29 Day County 4641
30 Kingsbury County 4634
31 Brule County 4350
32 Tripp County 4330
33 Walworth County 4272
34 Marshall County 4096
35 Deuel County 4045
36 Edmunds County 3674
37 Gregory County 3664
38 Clark County 3492
39 Hanson County 3307
40 Hand County 3062
41 Douglas County 2731
42 Stanley County 2709
43 Perkins County 2645
44 Aurora County 2413
45 McPherson County 2284
46 Faulk County 2244
47 Sanborn County 2206
48 Lyman County 2097
49 Miner County 2082
50 Potter County 1984
51 Jerauld County 1869
52 Haakon County 1711
53 Campbell County 1307
54 Jackson County 1297
55 Sully County 1271
56 Harding County 1199
57 Corson County 1169
58 Dewey County 1138
59 Hyde County 1124
60 Bennett County 1099
61 Jones County 800
62 Mellette County 753
63 Todd County 740
64 Ziebach County 671
65 Oglala Lakota County 649
66 Buffalo County 293