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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 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80% ...
[94] [page needed] The Amish are among the fastest-growing populations in the world, with an average of seven children per family in the 1970s [95] and a total fertility rate of 5.3 in the 2010s. [ 96 ]
The Daily Yonder reports that as the Amish population in America grows, Amish communities — and their rural neighbors — are finding ways to adapt.
The Amish settlement in Hart County mainly between Munfordville and Horse Cave was founded in 1989. It has ties to the Geauga Amish settlement in Ohio, from where many of the Hart County Amish came. It is the fastest-growing Amish settlement in America and had 14 church districts and a total population of about 1,800 as of 2013.
The South remains fastest growing, most populous region. Continuing a yearslong trend, the South remained the fastest growing region in the U.S., adding 1.8 million people this year, more than all ...
Amish young women at the beach, Chincoteague, Virginia. The Old Order Amish are among the fastest-growing populations in the world. They have low infant mortality rates. The average Amish woman can expect to have at least seven live births. [23] Other plain sects with the same or similar doctrines can be expected to have similarly explosive growth.
In swing states like Pennsylvania, home to the largest Amish population in the country, its 92,000 members could make all the difference in expanding the narrow margins separating President-elect ...
Holmes County itself has the highest concentration of Amish in any US county; [9] [15] the Amish make up half the county's population. [16] In contrast, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Amish represent about 7% of the county's population. [13] [17] Holmes County has been projected to become the first in the US with a majority-Amish ...