South Dakota Ancestry and Population Demographic Data

On this page, you'll find details on the largest ethnic ancestries in South Dakota, with links to ancestry pages to research more data.

Below, we'll show you the full list of different ancestries reported in South Dakota for the past 6 years. These start from the latest figures from the Census Bureau for , back to -5.

To make the surfacing of this data easier, we've listed it in descending order based on the most recent year of data available, which means that past years may not be in the correct descending order.

All ancestry labels below are the grouping terms used by the U.S. Census Bureau and are not labels that Name Census has provided.

South Dakota Ancestry Data

Ancestry 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
White 716,691 721,410 724,430 730,062 733,719 735,228
German 152,515 146,291 143,458 137,878 131,296 126,995
American Indian 66,566 67,655 65,065 64,442 63,792 61,078
Norwegian 41,964 42,369 41,429 40,094 38,202 36,491
American 29,328 29,540 28,935 28,747 29,095 31,449
Hispanic or Latino 27,914 29,187 29,901 31,995 33,024 36,088
Irish 20,696 19,863 19,255 18,056 17,291 17,242
Mexican 18,242 18,918 20,228 21,229 21,212 22,056
Dutch 15,870 14,541 14,201 13,042 12,762 12,592
African American 13,133 14,078 14,698 16,241 17,531 18,836
English 12,423 12,292 11,625 11,396 11,078 11,741
Asian 10,152 11,351 11,693 12,660 12,627 12,413
Some Other Race 7,940 7,480 6,687 6,613 7,230 7,320
Swedish 6,275 6,111 6,153 6,165 5,631 5,186
Czech 5,733 5,678 5,556 5,642 5,667 5,025
European 5,330 5,101 5,755 6,468 7,707 8,256
Danish 4,404 4,337 4,126 3,701 3,871 3,757
Subsaharan African 3,975 5,006 5,079 5,646 7,056 7,648
Italian 3,655 3,386 3,479 3,068 2,741 3,038
Polish 3,147 3,549 3,653 3,682 3,284 3,393
Scandinavian 3,046 3,425 3,427 4,299 4,312 4,619
French 2,923 2,719 2,657 2,606 2,431 2,524
Guatemalan 2,424 2,253 1,772 1,861 2,423 3,322
Scottish 2,370 2,269 2,450 2,575 2,434 2,383
Chinese 1,736 2,131 1,851 1,772 1,687 1,690
Puerto Rican 1,730 1,917 1,892 2,439 2,337 2,797
African 1,659 1,762 1,927 1,597 2,141 1,783
Burmese 1,548 1,732 2,152 2,026 1,607 951
Finnish 1,516 1,489 1,381 1,410 1,396 1,301
French Canadian 1,490 1,379 1,312 1,124 1,096 845
Scotch-Irish 1,420 1,207 1,215 1,273 1,161 1,129
Filipino 1,326 1,396 1,340 1,614 1,426 1,582
Ethiopian 1,212 1,418 1,352 1,932 2,184 3,250
Asian Indian 1,180 1,055 1,233 1,758 1,736 2,141
Russian 1,172 877 890 792 782 660
All other Hispanic or Latino 1,091 1,132 1,085 1,125 1,287 1,412
Ukrainian 1,068 984 1,026 957 944 1,348
Salvadoran 1,058 1,451 1,514 1,373 1,582 2,106
Korean 1,028 1,007 1,084 1,104 1,220 1,338
Welsh 795 738 670 550 568 646
British 791 769 712 913 882 865
Total Arab 739 746 815 901 951 1,111
Spaniard 731 763 625 738 719 624
Northern European 695 907 912 1,048 1,295 1,346
Thai 687 563 453 563 766 544
Swiss 651 687 750 586 483 382
Czechoslovakian 639 612 600 640 617 702
Belgian 622 533 659 663 644 515
Yugoslavian 622 739 471 433 361 722
Laotian 436 555 601 409 485 431
Cuban 413 603 442 352 464 412
Peruvian 401 317 321 249 296 442
Hungarian 396 396 333 404 444 352
Greek 351 373 349 386 326 352
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 332 313 381 293 504 544
Nicaraguan 325 152 89 126 148 218
West Indian (except Hispanic groups) 322 305 341 541 544 599
Canadian 316 353 373 362 388 326
Bhutanese 311 377 468 487 352 241
Spanish 307 342 432 629 635 873
Nepalese 286 341 228 532 607 777
Luxembourger 272 231 232 193 151 169
Sudanese 259 362 275 489 606 542
Slovak 255 222 201 172 111 42
Dominican 249 182 311 503 446 559
Croatian 244 251 243 288 301 224
Other Asian, not specified 233 381 301 374 372 336
Somali 233 445 371 520 620 620
Austrian 232 323 297 365 418 430
Portuguese 227 129 225 211 236 162
Panamanian 209 367 212 249 314 102
Arab 208 173 177 101 187 302
Honduran 196 216 216 253 281 314
Pennsylvania German 189 168 218 251 288 301
Liberian 188 496 510 338 556 567
Other Subsaharan African 178 285 363 460 657 589
Japanese 161 253 281 354 388 364
Romanian 161 126 118 150 187 148
Afghan 159 173 145 58 218 192
Colombian 152 154 195 179 168 157
Pakistani 149 105 124 117 234 156
Two or more Asian 146 273 389 582 554 647
German Russian 143 105 142 162 183 202
Cambodian 128 121 117 32 111 101
Jamaican 121 133 102 115 152 152
Venezuelan 119 69 103 23 72 69
Syrian 119 115 165 151 51 51
Iraqi 118 141 82 66 175 162
Trinidadian and Tobagonian 111 88 124 81 31 0
Brazilian 110 148 124 131 73 81
Lebanese 109 120 118 121 123 169
Alaska Native tribes 96 76 32 60 58 59
Celtic 96 90 125 122 138 105
Other Arab 86 134 195 316 276 301
Latvian 84 98 106 147 9 11
South African 80 101 83 91 71 89
Armenian 77 81 63 28 18 24
Other Central American 73 50 39 43 10 14
Australian 68 26 41 45 16 14
Eastern European 65 119 173 295 297 354
Lithuanian 64 75 69 56 69 73
Slovene 58 40 50 63 63 82
Nigerian 56 59 69 72 60 41
Kenyan 54 63 78 63 36 38
Moroccan 53 44 41 31 26 15
Haitian 53 52 66 87 143 183
Slavic 45 31 15 17 14 1
Indonesian 44 65 72 56 39 28
Bolivian 44 54 36 77 81 80
Chilean 42 71 96 132 127 139
Sri Lankan 38 30 43 22 5 0
Albanian 38 35 36 59 25 21
Egyptian 38 10 26 88 67 84
Icelander 38 41 43 23 25 40
Ugandan 37 13 12 36 29 25
Spanish American 34 0 0 0 0 39
Costa Rican 28 40 84 153 162 96
Iranian 28 28 40 39 40 23
Other South American 25 23 17 23 22 0
Hmong 24 23 18 28 21 5
West Indian 23 21 30 240 199 206
Zimbabwean 18 0 0 0 0 0
New Zealander 17 16 4 5 5 5
Taiwanese 14 12 15 10 1 1
Serbian 14 18 18 72 110 101
Argentinean 13 86 115 118 98 95
Bulgarian 12 15 20 16 17 4
Guyanese 12 12 5 5 0 0
Cajun 11 72 65 58 51 46
British West Indian 9 0 0 0 0 32
Other Asian, specified 8 0 0 0 0 0
Palestinian 8 9 11 13 32 16
Basque 8 22 62 81 107 107
Mongolian 6 6 5 8 0 0
Bangladeshi 5 41 43 44 45 57
Ecuadorian 5 22 60 96 114 138
Israeli 5 0 0 0 0 0
Barbadian 5 5 5 0 0 0
Paraguayan 3 5 17 25 26 24
Turkish 3 44 55 100 72 99
Alsatian 1 1 2 2 0 0
Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac 1 1 0 0 0 0
Ghanaian 1 2 39 48 96 104

Data Source(s)

All of the data on this page is sourced from the latest American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, from the United States Census Bureau. The latest year for the ACS is currently .

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