Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2012
Updated on June 18, 2025.
Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2012, 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 (92.67%), followed by Todd County (85.76%), and Buffalo County (79.96%).
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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Data Source: US Census Bureau (Vintage).
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Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are
Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2012
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| Rank | County | % of County Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oglala Lakota County | 92.67 |
| 2 | Todd County | 85.76 |
| 3 | Buffalo County | 79.96 |
| 4 | Dewey County | 72.4 |
| 5 | Ziebach County | 69.82 |
| 6 | Corson County | 62.9 |
| 7 | Bennett County | 59.72 |
| 8 | Mellette County | 52.92 |
| 9 | Jackson County | 50.19 |
| 10 | Lyman County | 38.17 |
| 11 | Roberts County | 35.37 |
| 12 | Charles Mix County | 30.95 |
| 13 | Tripp County | 13.17 |
| 14 | Walworth County | 13.09 |
| 15 | Moody County | 12.68 |
| 16 | Hughes County | 9.73 |
| 17 | Pennington County | 8.89 |
| 18 | Day County | 8.82 |
| 19 | Brule County | 8.39 |
| 20 | Hyde County | 7.84 |
| 21 | Stanley County | 7.82 |
| 22 | Bon Homme County | 7.23 |
| 23 | Marshall County | 7.22 |
| 24 | Gregory County | 6.85 |
| 25 | Fall River County | 6.34 |
| 26 | Brown County | 3.08 |
| 27 | Custer County | 2.96 |
| 28 | Clay County | 2.91 |
| 29 | Davison County | 2.62 |
| 30 | Yankton County | 2.55 |
| 31 | Meade County | 2.4 |
| 32 | Minnehaha County | 2.36 |
| 33 | Jones County | 2.32 |
| 34 | Douglas County | 2.07 |
| 35 | Lawrence County | 1.98 |
| 36 | Haakon County | 1.93 |
| 37 | Harding County | 1.92 |
| 38 | Perkins County | 1.91 |
| 39 | Sully County | 1.82 |
| 40 | Codington County | 1.81 |
| 41 | Aurora County | 1.59 |
| 42 | Butte County | 1.44 |
| 43 | Spink County | 1.26 |
| 44 | Potter County | 1.15 |
| 45 | Brookings County | 1.06 |
| 46 | Beadle County | 0.91 |
| 47 | Lake County | 0.75 |
| 48 | Hutchinson County | 0.74 |
| 49 | Grant County | 0.66 |
| 50 | Kingsbury County | 0.59 |
| 51 | Union County | 0.58 |
| 52 | Campbell County | 0.57 |
| 52 | Turner County | 0.57 |
| 53 | McCook County | 0.56 |
| 54 | Edmunds County | 0.5 |
| 55 | Lincoln County | 0.48 |
| 56 | Sanborn County | 0.43 |
| 57 | Hanson County | 0.39 |
| 57 | Jerauld County | 0.39 |
| 58 | Hand County | 0.36 |
| 59 | Deuel County | 0.34 |
| 60 | Hamlin County | 0.32 |
| 61 | Miner County | 0.26 |
| 62 | Clark County | 0.14 |
| 63 | Faulk County | 0.13 |
| 64 | McPherson County | 0.08 |