Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Population that are White Alone 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 race as White Alone (97.98%), followed by Hand County (97.92%), and Sanborn County (97.74%).
The chart below shows the top 10 counties, and the table below shows the ranking of all South Dakota counties.
You can see similar ranking information for other racial and ethnicity groups in the United States.
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Data Source: US Census Bureau (Vintage).
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Ranking of South Dakota Counties By Percentage of Pop. that are
White Alone in 2017
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| Rank | County | % of County Population |
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| 1 | Faulk County | 97.98 |
| 2 | Hand County | 97.92 |
| 3 | Sanborn County | 97.74 |
| 4 | Jerauld County | 97.67 |
| 5 | Hanson County | 97.63 |
| 6 | Campbell County | 97.6 |
| 6 | Hamlin County | 97.6 |
| 7 | McPherson County | 97.46 |
| 8 | Turner County | 97.2 |
| 9 | Deuel County | 97.16 |
| 10 | Edmunds County | 96.91 |
| 11 | McCook County | 96.76 |
| 12 | Miner County | 96.46 |
| 13 | Clark County | 96.44 |
| 14 | Grant County | 96.41 |
| 15 | Kingsbury County | 96.36 |
| 16 | Hutchinson County | 96.18 |
| 17 | Douglas County | 95.75 |
| 18 | Spink County | 95.37 |
| 19 | Perkins County | 95.27 |
| 20 | Lake County | 95.15 |
| 21 | Union County | 94.76 |
| 22 | Aurora County | 94.6 |
| 23 | Lincoln County | 94.59 |
| 24 | Potter County | 94.45 |
| 25 | Sully County | 94.36 |
| 26 | Harding County | 94.29 |
| 27 | Codington County | 94.22 |
| 28 | Butte County | 94.09 |
| 29 | Haakon County | 93.54 |
| 30 | Lawrence County | 93.11 |
| 31 | Davison County | 92.99 |
| 32 | Custer County | 92.67 |
| 33 | Brookings County | 92.6 |
| 34 | Jones County | 92.38 |
| 35 | Yankton County | 92.13 |
| 36 | Meade County | 90.74 |
| 37 | Stanley County | 89.49 |
| 38 | Clay County | 89.29 |
| 39 | Bon Homme County | 89 |
| 40 | Gregory County | 88.73 |
| 41 | Brown County | 88.51 |
| 42 | Day County | 87.94 |
| 43 | Marshall County | 87.81 |
| 44 | Hyde County | 87.76 |
| 45 | Fall River County | 87.35 |
| 46 | Minnehaha County | 86.37 |
| 47 | Beadle County | 85.42 |
| 48 | Brule County | 85.19 |
| 49 | Hughes County | 83.95 |
| 50 | Pennington County | 83.32 |
| 51 | Tripp County | 82.05 |
| 52 | Walworth County | 80.44 |
| 53 | Moody County | 79.53 |
| 54 | Charles Mix County | 63.89 |
| 55 | Roberts County | 57.82 |
| 56 | Lyman County | 56.55 |
| 57 | Jackson County | 40.49 |
| 58 | Mellette County | 39.06 |
| 59 | Bennett County | 34.06 |
| 60 | Corson County | 29.95 |
| 61 | Ziebach County | 24.61 |
| 62 | Dewey County | 20.55 |
| 63 | Buffalo County | 15.69 |
| 64 | Todd County | 8.27 |
| 65 | Oglala Lakota County | 4.96 |