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The Amish have settled in as many as 32 US-states though about 2/3 are located in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The largest Amish settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and adjacent counties followed by Holmes and adjoining counties in northeast Ohio, about 78 miles south of Cleveland.
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 overall Amish population of the area, centered on Holmes County, is the largest Amish community in the world. [39] Called locally "Amish Country", it draws many visitors to the county, thus making tourism an important sector of the local economy. In Holmes County Amish Settlements there are several Old Order Amish affiliations.
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 ...
Lancaster County Anabaptist community founded in c. 1760, has the world's largest Amish settlement, with 37,000 people in 220 church districts in 2017, or about 7% of the county's population. [72] By 2021 the Amish population increased to almost 42,000.
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 ...
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
Charles Hurst and David McConnell: An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2010 ISBN 9780801893988; Joe Mackall: Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish, Boston, Mass. 2007. ISBN 9780807010648 (Account of a neighbor and friend to a Swartzentruber family)