The graph below ranks each South Dakota County by total of White residents according to the 2006 census estimates.
South Dakota total of White population by county
| County | White Population |
| Minnehaha |  151,809 |
| Pennington | 82,882 |
| Lincoln | 34,160 |
| Brown | 32,919 |
| Brookings | 27,030 |
| Codington | 25,485 |
| Meade | 22,766 |
| Lawrence | 21,733 |
| Yankton | 20,751 |
| Davison | 18,247 |
| Beadle | 14,974 |
| Hughes | 14,734 |
| Union | 13,230 |
| Clay | 11,742 |
| Lake | 10,861 |
| Butte | 8,984 |
| Turner | 8,407 |
| Custer | 7,471 |
| Hutchinson | 7,319 |
| Grant | 7,172 |
| Bon Homme | 6,857 |
| Spink | 6,718 |
| Roberts | 6,714 |
| Fall River | 6,592 |
| Charles Mix | 6,177 |
| McCook | 5,781 |
| Moody | 5,618 |
| Hamlin | 5,521 |
| Kingsbury | 5,374 |
| Tripp | 5,268 |
| Day | 5,093 |
| Walworth | 4,620 |
| Brule | 4,559 |
| Deuel | 4,208 |
| Marshall | 4,032 |
| Edmunds | 4,029 |
| Gregory | 3,913 |
| Hanson | 3,663 |
| Clark | 3,632 |
| Hand | 3,299 |
| Douglas | 3,097 |
| Perkins | 2,931 |
| Aurora | 2,823 |
| Stanley | 2,552 |
| McPherson | 2,543 |
| Miner | 2,516 |
| Sanborn | 2,488 |
| Lyman | 2,386 |
| Faulk | 2,324 |
| Potter | 2,270 |
| Jerauld | 2,044 |
| Haakon | 1,779 |
| Todd | 1,611 |
| Dewey | 1,533 |
| Campbell | 1,475 |
| Corson | 1,439 |
| Hyde | 1,399 |
| Sully | 1,396 |
| Bennett | 1,354 |
| Jackson | 1,349 |
| Shannon | 1,282 |
| Harding | 1,177 |
| Jones | 1,009 |
| Mellette | 883 |
| Ziebach | 729 |
| Buffalo | 367 |