Twelve Largest Amish Settlements, 2026

Settlement	State	Districts	Estimated population
Lancaster County area	Pennsylvania	301	45,575
Holmes County area	Ohio	332	38,775
Elkhart/LaGrange Counties area	Indiana	246	30,795
Geauga County area	Ohio	165	22,125
Adams County area	Indiana	75	11,255
Nappanee area	Indiana	55	6,500
Daviess County area	Indiana	39	6,490
Arthur/Arcola area	Illinois	33	5,790
Mifflin County area	Pennsylvania	36	5,650
Seymour area	Missouri	24	4,555
Allen County area	Indiana	26	4,130
Heuvelton area	New York	14	3,360

To cite this page: “Twelve Largest Amish Settlements, 2026.” Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/twelve-largest-settlements-2026/

Amish Studies is an academic website developed by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College to provide reliable information on Amish life and culture. Designed to assist scholars, students and the general public, the site was developed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Amish population statistics are updated annually in the summer. Other information is updated periodically.

For an in-depth discussion of the Amish:

Authors: Donald Kraybill, Karen Johnson-Weiner, Steven Nolt (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013; paperback, 2018)