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There were 32 states of the United States with an Amish population in 2024 that consists of at least one Amish settlement of Old or New Order Amish, excluding more modern Amish groups like e.g. the Beachy Amish. New Order Amish are seen as part of the Old Order Amish despite the name by most scholars. The Amish have settled in as many as 32 US ...
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
Amish settlements in Ohio. The largest centered around Holmes and Geauga Counties. 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 Daily Yonder reports that as the Amish population in America grows, Amish communities — and their rural neighbors — are finding ways to adapt. Across the country, Amish populations are on ...
The Lancaster Amish affiliation is the largest affiliation among the Old Order Amish and as such a subgroup of Amish. Its origin and largest settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The settlement in Lancaster County, founded in 1760 near Churchtown [ 1 ] is the oldest Amish settlement that is still in existence.
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.
Lancaster County (/ ˈlæŋkɪstər /; Pennsylvania Dutch: Lengeschder Kaundi), sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 552,984, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most populous county. [ 2 ]
As of 2000, the Swartzentruber Amish had 64 districts, 3,165 members, a total population of 7,101 in 12 states with 33 districts in Ohio alone. [14] There are nineteen districts of Swartzentruber in Holmes County and Wayne County , where the subgroup originated.