Twelve Largest Settlements, 2018

Settlement State Districts Estimated population
Lancaster County area Pennsylvania 229 38,095
Holmes County area Ohio 281 35,850
Elkhart/LaGrange Counties area Indiana 186 24,955
Geauga County area Ohio 130 19,055
Adams County area Indiana 60 8,855
Nappanee area Indiana 46 6,030
Daviess County area Indiana 29 5,005
Arthur area Illinois 30 4,555
Mifflin County area Pennsylvania 31 3,870
Allen County area Indiana 23 3,265
Indiana County area Pennsylvania 23 3,110
Seymour area Missouri 16 2,805

Note: Settlement and district statistics were updated in June 2018. The number of people in a church district varies by settlement. For example, there are approximately 170 people per district in the Lancaster County settlement and approximately 130 per district in the Holmes County settlement. Population estimates, which include both adults and children, were calculated using a variety of sources including Raber’s New American Almanac, reports by correspondents in Die BotschaftThe Budget, and The Diary, settlement directories, regional newsletters, and settlement informants. The table includes all Amish groups that use horse-and-buggy transportation, but excludes car-driving groups such as the Beachy Amish and Amish Mennonites.

To cite this page: “Twelve Largest Amish Settlements, 2018.” Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. http://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/twelve-largest-settlements-2018/