List of U.S. states by Amish population

There were 32 states of the United States with an Amish population in 2022 that consists of at least one Amish settlement of Old or New Order Amish, excluding more modern Amish groups like e.g. the Beachy Amish. New Order Amish are seen as part of the Old Order Amish despite the name by most scholars.

The Amish have settled in as many as 32 US-states though about 2/3 are located in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The largest Amish settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and adjacent counties followed by Holmes and adjoining counties in northeast Ohio, about 78 miles south of Cleveland. Third in size is the settlement in Elkhart, LaGrange and surrounding counties in northeastern Indiana which is geographically merging with the Nappanee settlement due to the growth of both settlements, which filled the gap between the two. According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought.

The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 370,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."

Statistics of states

• The settlement in Pinecraft (Sarasota), Florida is very atypical and its population varies a lot according to the season.

Sources of the statistics

The data for 1992 are from "Amish Studies - The Young Center".

The data for 2000 are from a book published in 2001 (Donald Kraybill, The Riddle of Amish Culture) and from "Amish Studies – The Young Center".

The data for 2010 are from "Amish Studies - The Young Center". The 2010 census of Amish population was published in 2012, compiled by Elizabeth Cooksey, professor of sociology, and Cory Anderson, a graduate student in rural sociology, both at The Ohio State University. It was commissioned by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies for the 2010 U.S. Religion Census (published in 2012).

The data for 2022 comes from "Amish Studies – The Young Center".

The percentage of the state's population is from a 2021 estimate.

The data from 2023 come "Elizabethtown College, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies-2023" as of June 2023.

Counties with the highest percentage

Data from 2010 according to "Association of Religion Data Archives" (ARDA)

And from 2020 according to the "US Religion Census" report. Data are only shown for Old Order Amish and exclude related groups such as Beachy Amish-Mennonite Churches, Maranatha Amish-Mennonite, Amish-Mennonites and Mennonites in general.

Counties under 3% Amish, but above 250 adherents each

Largest designated settlements

Sources: 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Amish settlements outside the US

There are Amish settlements in four Canadian provinces, Ontario, founded in the 1820s, Manitoba, founded in 2018, New Brunswick in 2015 and Prince Edward Island, in 2016.

There was an Amish settlement in Honduras from about 1968 to 1978 but the settlement failed.

In 2015 new settlements of New Order Amish were founded in Argentina and Bolivia.

References