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The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish (a Pennsylvania Dutch group), with in 2023 an estimated 84,065 members according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.
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.
Most Old Order Amish, New Order Amish and the Old Beachy Amish speak Pennsylvania Dutch, but Indiana's Swiss Amish also speak Alemannic dialects. [13] As of 2024 [update] , the Amish population passed the milestone of 400,000, [ 14 ] with about 395,000 Old Order Amish living in the United States, and over 6,000 in Canada: a population that is ...
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A large Amish community of about 36,000 exists in Northeast-Central Ohio, centered on Holmes County and extending into surrounding counties. [39] The Holmes Old Order Amish affiliation , with 140 church districts out of 221 in the Holmes County Amish settlement in 2009, is the main and dominant Amish affiliation. [ 40 ]
If you view Ohio’s Amish Country—a simple and slow-paced setting—in an appropriate manner, you don’t want to fight a tourist-filled crowd.
While Amish homes may function without electricity and other modern conveniences, the lifestyle brings a lot of interest from tourists, who make Holmes County one of Ohio's top tourist attractions.
All New Order Amish districts still preserve the traditional Amish dress, although there is a trend towards slimmer brimmed hats and trimmed beards among the men. As for the New Order women, they typically have brighter colors all around. Pennsylvania German is mostly preserved, but there is a tendency to shift to the English language.