Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Non-Hispanic White Population in 2020

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2020, among all South Dakota counties, Minnehaha County had the highest number of people who identified their ethnicity as Non-Hispanic White (159.19K), followed by Pennington County (87.74K), and Lincoln County (60.20K).

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 2020
Minnehaha
Pennington
Lincoln
Brown
Brookings
Codington
Meade
Lawrence
Yankton
Davison
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Non-Hispanic White Population in 2020
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Rank County Non-Hispanic White Population
1 Minnehaha County 159189
2 Pennington County 87737
3 Lincoln County 60195
4 Brown County 32538
5 Brookings County 30551
6 Codington County 26098
7 Meade County 25965
8 Lawrence County 23323
9 Yankton County 20540
10 Davison County 17804
11 Union County 15334
12 Hughes County 14520
13 Beadle County 13671
14 Clay County 13067
15 Lake County 9924
16 Butte County 9290
17 Turner County 8198
18 Custer County 7595
19 Hutchinson County 6993
20 Grant County 6838
21 Bon Homme County 6095
22 Charles Mix County 6012
23 Spink County 5998
24 Fall River County 5957
25 Roberts County 5893
26 Hamlin County 5712
27 McCook County 5328
28 Kingsbury County 4917
29 Moody County 4814
30 Day County 4671
31 Tripp County 4569
32 Brule County 4360
33 Walworth County 4228
34 Deuel County 4023
35 Edmunds County 3812
36 Marshall County 3668
37 Clark County 3568
38 Gregory County 3485
39 Hanson County 3303
40 Hand County 3017
41 Perkins County 2661
42 Douglas County 2643
43 Stanley County 2635
44 Aurora County 2390
45 Potter County 2285
46 McPherson County 2277
47 Sanborn County 2196
48 Miner County 2184
49 Lyman County 2146
50 Faulk County 2045
51 Haakon County 1720
52 Jerauld County 1517
53 Sully County 1339
54 Campbell County 1295
55 Harding County 1201
56 Bennett County 1182
57 Corson County 1177
58 Jackson County 1102
59 Hyde County 1074
60 Dewey County 1060
61 Oglala Lakota County 896
62 Jones County 827
63 Todd County 771
64 Mellette County 726
65 Ziebach County 658
66 Buffalo County 312