Twelve Largest Settlements, 2020

Settlement State Districts Estimated population
Lancaster County area Pennsylvania 240 40,525
Holmes County area Ohio 292 36,955
Elkhart/LaGrange Counties area Indiana 194 26,380
Geauga County area Ohio 137 18,820
Adams County area Indiana 63 10,305
Nappanee area Indiana 48 6,300
Daviess County area Indiana 33 5,465
Arthur area Illinois 30 4,095
Mifflin County area Pennsylvania 32 4,090
Allen County area Indiana 24 3,445
Indiana County area Pennsylvania 25 3,355
Seymour area Missouri 16 3,170


Note: 
Settlement and district statistics were updated in June 2020. 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, 2020.” Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. http://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/twelve-largest-settlements-2020/