Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are Non-Hispanic White in 2018

Updated on June 18, 2025.

Based on the US Census Vintage data estimates, in 2018, among all South Dakota counties, Faulk County had the highest percentage of its population who identified their ethnicity as Non-Hispanic White (97.11%), followed by Hand County (96.57%), and Hanson County (96.41%).

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 2018
Faulk
Hand
Hanson
McPherson
Edmunds
Campbell
Turner
Sanborn
Kingsbury
Hutchinson
Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are Non-Hispanic White in 2018
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Rank County % of County Population
1 Faulk County 97.11
2 Hand County 96.57
3 Hanson County 96.41
4 McPherson County 96.18
5 Edmunds County 95.43
6 Campbell County 95.35
7 Turner County 94.77
8 Sanborn County 94.47
9 Kingsbury County 94.38
10 Hutchinson County 94.3
11 Douglas County 94.18
12 Deuel County 93.89
12 Perkins County 93.89
13 Miner County 93.71
14 Spink County 93.59
15 Clark County 93.04
16 Hamlin County 92.98
17 Potter County 92.97
18 McCook County 92.91
19 Lake County 92.82
20 Lincoln County 92.73
21 Sully County 92.64
22 Jerauld County 92.61
23 Grant County 92.5
24 Codington County 92.04
25 Harding County 91.77
26 Union County 91.71
27 Haakon County 91.58
28 Butte County 90.92
29 Lawrence County 90.55
30 Davison County 90.49
31 Custer County 89.84
32 Brookings County 89.8
33 Jones County 89.29
34 Aurora County 88.51
35 Yankton County 87.96
36 Stanley County 87.61
37 Hyde County 87.35
38 Meade County 87.21
39 Gregory County 87.18
40 Clay County 86.9
41 Bon Homme County 86.24
42 Brown County 86.17
43 Day County 86.08
44 Fall River County 85.02
45 Brule County 84.22
46 Marshall County 83.05
47 Minnehaha County 81.88
48 Hughes County 81.73
49 Tripp County 80.42
50 Pennington County 79.85
51 Walworth County 78.64
52 Moody County 76.91
53 Beadle County 76.06
54 Charles Mix County 62.76
55 Roberts County 55.98
56 Lyman County 55.9
57 Jackson County 38.91
58 Mellette County 36.52
59 Bennett County 31.68
60 Corson County 27.87
61 Ziebach County 24.14
62 Dewey County 19.55
63 Buffalo County 15.11
64 Todd County 7.5
65 Oglala Lakota County 4.46