There were 32 states of the United States with Amish population in 2022 that consists of at least one

Amish The Amish (; pdc, Amisch; german: link=no, Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German and Alsatian origins. They are closely related to Mennonite churc ...

settlement of Old or New Order Amish, excluding more modern Amish groups like e.g. the

Beachy Amish The Beachy Amish Mennonites, also known as the Beachy Mennonites, are an Anabaptist group of churches in the Conservative Mennonite tradition that have Amish roots. Although they have retained the name "Amish" they are quite different from the O ...

. 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

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and

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. The largest Amish settlement is

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and adjacent counties followed by

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and adjoining counties in northeast Ohio, about 78 miles south of Cleveland. Third in size is the settlement in Elkhart,

LaGrange Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi LagrangiaNappanee Nappanee is a city in Elkhart and Kosciusko counties in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 6,648 as of the 2010 U.S. Census and had grown to 6,913 by the 2020 U.S. Census. The name Nappanee probably means "flour" in Algonquian. The ...

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 360,000 and is growing rapidly, 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 Donald B. Kraybill (born 1945) is an American author, lecturer, and educator on Anabaptist faiths and culture. Kraybill is widely recognized for his studies on Anabaptist groups and in particular the Amish. He has researched and written extensivel ...

, ''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

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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.

Largest settlements

Sources: 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Counties with the highest percentage

Data according to "2020 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". Percentage is calculated via the language statistics given by the ACS, which in the category "Language Spoken at Home", has the "other han English or SpanishIndo-European language" subcategory; in the following counties this is primarily

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, the language of majority of the Amish people.

Amish settlements outside the US

There are Amish settlements in four

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provinces,

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, founded in the 1820s,

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, founded in 2018,

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in 2015 and

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, in 2016. There was an Amish settlement in

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from about 1968 to 1978 but the settlement failed.Cory Anderson and Jennifer Anderson
"The Amish Settlement in Honduras, 1968-1978"
in ''Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies'' 4,1, pages 1-50. In 2015 new settlements of

New Order Amish The New Order Amish are a subgroup of Amish that split away from the Old Order Amish in the 1960s for a variety of reasons, which included a desire for "clean" youth courting standards, meaning they do not condone the practice of bundling, or no ...

were founded in

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and

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References

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* Amish by state