Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2015

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2015, 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 (90.9%), followed by Todd County (85.19%), and Buffalo County (79.66%).

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 2015
Oglala Lakota
Todd
Buffalo
Dewey
Ziebach
Corson
Bennett
Mellette
Jackson
Lyman
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2015
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Oglala Lakota County 90.9
2 Todd County 85.19
3 Buffalo County 79.66
4 Dewey County 72.05
5 Ziebach County 69.2
6 Corson County 62.61
7 Bennett County 58.44
8 Mellette County 52.69
9 Jackson County 51.36
10 Lyman County 37.52
11 Roberts County 35.85
12 Charles Mix County 30.6
13 Tripp County 13.59
14 Moody County 12.94
15 Walworth County 12.88
16 Hughes County 10.07
17 Day County 9.14
18 Brule County 8.9
18 Pennington County 8.9
19 Hyde County 8.44
20 Bon Homme County 7.39
21 Gregory County 7.37
22 Stanley County 6.85
23 Marshall County 6.69
24 Fall River County 6.01
25 Custer County 3.39
26 Brown County 3.12
27 Yankton County 2.77
28 Clay County 2.76
29 Davison County 2.65
30 Sully County 2.64
31 Meade County 2.54
32 Douglas County 2.34
32 Minnehaha County 2.34
33 Lawrence County 2.04
34 Codington County 2.01
35 Jones County 1.96
36 Perkins County 1.94
37 Aurora County 1.93
38 Potter County 1.87
39 Haakon County 1.84
40 Harding County 1.81
41 Butte County 1.55
42 Spink County 1.45
43 Brookings County 1.04
44 Beadle County 0.99
45 Lake County 0.85
46 Grant County 0.83
47 Hutchinson County 0.8
48 Campbell County 0.78
49 Kingsbury County 0.75
50 Edmunds County 0.73
51 McCook County 0.71
52 Turner County 0.58
52 Union County 0.58
53 Jerauld County 0.54
54 Lincoln County 0.48
55 Sanborn County 0.47
56 Deuel County 0.46
57 Hamlin County 0.45
58 Hand County 0.33
59 Hanson County 0.3
60 Miner County 0.27
61 Faulk County 0.17
61 McPherson County 0.17
62 Clark County 0.11