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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%."
The United States is the home to the overwhelming majority (over 98 percent) of the Amish people. In 2024, Old Order communities were present in 32 U.S. states. The total Amish population in the United States as of June 2024 has stood at 394,720 [1] up 17,445 or 4.6 percent, compared to
Ohio's largest Amish settlement is centered around Holmes County and in 2023 included an estimated 39,525 children and adults, the second largest in the world and the highest concentration of Amish in any US county; the Amish make up half the population of Holmes County, with members of other closely related Anabaptist Christian denominations ...
The total Amish population in Pennsylvania is estimated to be about 93,000. ... home to the largest Amish settlement in the U.S. – was 43,640. He said when looking solely at Lancaster County ...
The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories include the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Separate statistics are maintained for the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States: Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands ...
The largest populations are recorded in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin, according to the Young Center for Amish Studies. In swing states like Pennsylvania, home to the largest Amish ...
Holmes County, which was about 42% Amish in 2010, [6] and 48% in 2020, [7] has the highest concentration of Amish in the world, [8] which draws many visitors to the county. The Holmes Amish settlement , which also includes Amish from neighboring counties, is the second-largest in the world after Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , and numbered ...
Holmes County, with a substantial Amish population, has the lowest rate of insured residents. "Delaware County is a very wealthy place with a very different set of political needs than Holmes ...