South Dakota's Largest Ethnic Groups

German- American's are the largest ethnic group in South Dakota at over 40% of the state's population. South Dakota also has a large Norwegian community with 15% of residents having Norwegian ancestry. There is also a large Native American presence: with a population of over 65,000, the Sioux are the state's 4th largest ethnicity.

Rank	Ethnicity	2010 South Dakota Population	As a Percent of Total South Dakota Population
	Total Population	816,463	100.00%
1	German	337,045	41.28%
2	Norwegian	121,655	14.90%
3	Irish	84,298	10.32%
4	Sioux	65,575	8.03%
5	English	53,741	6.58%
6	Dutch	36,464	4.47%
7	American	31,464	3.85%
8	Swedish	31,376	3.84%
9	French, except Basque	22,747	2.79%
10	Danish	20,634	2.53%
11	Czech	19,592	2.40%
12	Polish	13,967	1.71%
13	Mexican	13,745	1.68%
14	Russian	13,024	1.60%
15	Scottish	9,696	1.19%
16	Italian	9,215	1.13%
17	European	6,643	0.81%
18	African-American*	5,509	0.67%
19	Welsh	4,905	0.60%
20	Subsaharan African	4,615	0.57%
21	Scotch-Irish	4,362	0.53%
22	French Canadian	3,593	0.44%
23	Swiss	3,484	0.43%
24	Chinese, including Taiwanese	2,177	0.27%
25	Central American	1,955	0.24%
26	Other Hispanic or Latino	1,932	0.24%
27	Arab	1,824	0.22%
28	Ukrainian	1,772	0.22%
29	Puerto Rican	1,328	0.16%
30	South American	1,306	0.16%
31	British	1,252	0.15%
32	Vietnamese	1,242	0.15%
33	Hungarian	1,088	0.13%
34	Greek	936	0.11%
35	Portuguese	842	0.10%
36	Chippewa	732	0.09%
37	Slovak	596	0.07%
38	Korean	570	0.07%
39	Japanese	464	0.06%
40	Lithuanian	341	0.04%
41	Asian Indian	321	0.04%
42	Filipino	295	0.04%
43	Cherokee	253	0.03%
44	West Indian (except Hispanic groups)	230	0.03%
45	Navajo	203	0.02%
46	Cuban	160	0.02%
47	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	82	0.01%
48	Dominican (Dominican Republic)	41	0.01%
49	Alaska Native tribes, specified	28	0.00%

Source: US Census Bureau, 2010 American Community Survey

1 year estimates, tables: B02001, C02005, C02006, C02007, C03001, B03002, C04006

* African-American is derived as respondents selecting Black as racial group after removing African, West Indian, and Hispanic ethnicities.