Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native in 2020

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2020, 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 (88.52%), followed by Todd County (83.66%), and Buffalo County (79.94%).

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 2020
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 2020
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Oglala Lakota County 88.52
2 Todd County 83.66
3 Buffalo County 79.94
4 Dewey County 72.96
5 Ziebach County 66.51
6 Corson County 64.42
7 Bennett County 55.99
8 Mellette County 53.59
9 Jackson County 51.2
10 Lyman County 37.26
11 Roberts County 36.22
12 Charles Mix County 29.61
13 Tripp County 14.33
14 Walworth County 12.86
15 Moody County 12.61
16 Hughes County 11.37
17 Brule County 10.32
18 Hyde County 8.8
19 Day County 8.62
20 Pennington County 8.55
21 Bon Homme County 7.58
22 Gregory County 7.44
23 Marshall County 6.66
24 Stanley County 6.63
25 Fall River County 5.81
26 Jones County 5.4
27 Clay County 3.25
28 Brown County 3.11
29 Custer County 2.81
30 Sully County 2.76
31 Davison County 2.7
32 Haakon County 2.68
32 Meade County 2.68
33 Harding County 2.6
34 Douglas County 2.51
35 Yankton County 2.48
36 Aurora County 2.34
37 Perkins County 2.32
38 Minnehaha County 2.3
39 Potter County 2.26
40 Codington County 2.2
41 Butte County 2.1
42 Lawrence County 1.93
43 Campbell County 1.23
44 Hutchinson County 1.2
45 Lake County 1.13
46 Beadle County 1.08
47 Brookings County 0.99
47 Sanborn County 0.99
48 Grant County 0.94
49 Spink County 0.92
50 Jerauld County 0.91
51 Edmunds County 0.9
52 McCook County 0.81
53 Deuel County 0.79
54 Kingsbury County 0.77
55 Turner County 0.73
56 Hanson County 0.72
57 Hamlin County 0.67
58 Union County 0.61
59 Lincoln County 0.56
60 Hand County 0.51
61 Clark County 0.49
62 Faulk County 0.47
63 Miner County 0.39
64 McPherson County 0.38