US Counties With the Highest Share American Indian or Alaska Native, Not Hispanic
1,399 US counties ranked by share american indian or alaska native, not hispanic, from highest to lowest. First are Oglala Lakota County, SD (91.4%), Kusilvak Census Area, AK (86.4%) and Sioux County, ND (83.7%). The middle one of the 1,399 has 0.241%.
What this measures
The percentage of residents who are American Indian or Alaska Native alone and not Hispanic. They live mostly on and near reservations: Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota is 91%, while most counties are under 1%. Source: Census ACS 5-year.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alaska | 13.5% |
| 2 | New Mexico | 8.6% |
| 3 | South Dakota | 7.38% |
| 4 | Oklahoma | 6.79% |
| 5 | Montana | 5.5% |
| 6 | North Dakota | 4.27% |
| 7 | Arizona | 3.4% |
| 8 | Wyoming | 1.69% |
| 9 | North Carolina | 0.845% |
| 10 | Washington | 0.819% |
| 11 | Idaho | 0.78% |
| 12 | Minnesota | 0.731% |
| 13 | Utah | 0.683% |
| 14 | Oregon | 0.666% |
| 15 | Nevada | 0.633% |
| 16 | Nebraska | 0.586% |
| 17 | Wisconsin | 0.582% |
| 18 | Kansas | 0.426% |
| 19 | Louisiana | 0.408% |
| 20 | Colorado | 0.385% |
| 21 | Maine | 0.382% |
| 22 | Arkansas | 0.356% |
| 23 | Mississippi | 0.35% |
| 24 | Michigan | 0.328% |
| 25 | California | 0.274% |
| 26 | Alabama | 0.257% |
| 27 | New York | 0.187% |
| 28 | South Carolina | 0.18% |
| 29 | Missouri | 0.174% |
| 30 | Iowa | 0.173% |
| 31 | Rhode Island | 0.157% |
| 32 | Texas | 0.152% |
| 33 | Delaware | 0.15% |
| 34 | Vermont | 0.139% |
| 35 | Maryland | 0.121% |
| 36 | Virginia | 0.121% |
| 37 | Hawaii | 0.121% |
| 38 | District of Columbia | 0.106% |
| 39 | Florida | 0.106% |
| 40 | Tennessee | 0.099% |
| 41 | Georgia | 0.0946% |
| 42 | Connecticut | 0.0899% |
| 43 | Massachusetts | 0.0835% |
| 44 | Kentucky | 0.0782% |
| 45 | New Hampshire | 0.0777% |
| 46 | New Jersey | 0.0733% |
| 47 | Indiana | 0.0703% |
| 48 | Illinois | 0.0697% |
| 49 | West Virginia | 0.0647% |
| 50 | Ohio | 0.0625% |
| 51 | Pennsylvania | 0.0553% |
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A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.