Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2018

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2018, 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 (89.82%), followed by Todd County (83.99%), and Buffalo County (77.78%).

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 2018
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 2018
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Oglala Lakota County 89.82
2 Todd County 83.99
3 Buffalo County 77.78
4 Dewey County 71.8
5 Ziebach County 67.09
6 Corson County 63.09
7 Bennett County 57.55
8 Mellette County 53.79
9 Jackson County 51.76
10 Lyman County 37.28
11 Roberts County 36.26
12 Charles Mix County 29.9
13 Walworth County 14.02
14 Tripp County 13.66
15 Moody County 12.46
16 Hughes County 11.02
17 Brule County 8.93
18 Day County 8.89
19 Pennington County 8.73
20 Bon Homme County 8.07
21 Hyde County 7.91
22 Gregory County 7.24
23 Marshall County 6.81
24 Stanley County 6.56
25 Fall River County 5.5
26 Jones County 4
27 Clay County 3.45
28 Custer County 3.3
29 Brown County 3.18
30 Davison County 2.97
31 Sully County 2.7
31 Yankton County 2.7
32 Haakon County 2.54
33 Meade County 2.52
34 Aurora County 2.41
35 Minnehaha County 2.31
36 Douglas County 2.26
37 Codington County 2.15
38 Perkins County 2.14
39 Potter County 2.13
40 Lawrence County 2.11
41 Harding County 2.08
42 Butte County 1.94
43 Spink County 1.42
44 Lake County 1.15
45 Grant County 1.14
46 Beadle County 1.08
47 Hutchinson County 1.03
48 Campbell County 1.02
49 Brookings County 1.01
50 Edmunds County 0.99
51 Kingsbury County 0.82
52 McCook County 0.75
53 Turner County 0.74
54 Jerauld County 0.69
55 Union County 0.66
56 Lincoln County 0.55
57 Hamlin County 0.54
58 Deuel County 0.51
59 Hand County 0.5
60 Sanborn County 0.46
61 Miner County 0.41
62 Faulk County 0.35
63 Hanson County 0.33
64 Clark County 0.27
65 McPherson County 0.17