Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are Non-Hispanic White in 2017

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2017, among all South Dakota counties, Faulk County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their ethnicity as Non-Hispanic White (96.95%), followed by Hand County (96.64%), and Hanson County (96.48%).

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 White in 2017
Faulk
Hand
Hanson
McPherson
Campbell
Edmunds
Turner
Kingsbury
Douglas
Sanborn
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Non-Hispanic White in 2017
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Faulk County 96.95
2 Hand County 96.64
3 Hanson County 96.48
4 McPherson County 96.42
5 Campbell County 96.07
6 Edmunds County 95.68
7 Turner County 95.3
8 Kingsbury County 94.62
9 Douglas County 94.54
10 Sanborn County 94.5
11 Hutchinson County 94.19
12 Deuel County 94.03
13 Miner County 94
14 Clark County 93.83
15 Perkins County 93.79
16 McCook County 93.62
17 Spink County 93.57
18 Jerauld County 93.32
19 Hamlin County 93.24
20 Lake County 93.22
21 Potter County 93.14
22 Lincoln County 92.91
23 Grant County 92.53
24 Sully County 92.5
25 Harding County 92.44
26 Codington County 92.28
27 Union County 92.2
28 Haakon County 91.66
29 Butte County 91.23
30 Davison County 90.8
31 Lawrence County 90.55
32 Jones County 90.41
33 Brookings County 89.91
34 Custer County 89.62
35 Aurora County 88.91
36 Yankton County 88.24
37 Gregory County 87.83
38 Stanley County 87.51
39 Meade County 87.49
40 Clay County 87.08
41 Hyde County 86.99
42 Bon Homme County 86.96
43 Day County 86.43
44 Brown County 86.32
45 Fall River County 84.68
46 Brule County 83.72
47 Marshall County 82.83
48 Hughes County 82.22
49 Minnehaha County 82.14
50 Tripp County 81.39
51 Pennington County 80.05
52 Walworth County 79.07
53 Moody County 76.79
54 Beadle County 76.64
55 Charles Mix County 62.99
56 Roberts County 56.68
57 Lyman County 56.04
58 Jackson County 39.58
59 Mellette County 37.75
60 Bennett County 32.29
61 Corson County 28.8
62 Ziebach County 23.99
63 Dewey County 19.73
64 Buffalo County 15.05
65 Todd County 7.59
66 Oglala Lakota County 4.27