Ohio Amish Country

Ohio Amish Country
	Amish settlements in Ohio. The largest centered around Holmes and Geauga Counties.
Total population
	84,065 (2023)
Regions with significant populations
Holmes County settlement	39,525
Geauga County settlement	20,440
Religions
	Anabaptist Christianity; (Old Order Amish • New Order Amish • Beachy Amish • Old Order Mennonites • Conservative Mennonites)
Languages
	Pennsylvania Dutch, High German, English

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.^[2]

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, such as the Mennonites, residing there as well.^[3] The second largest community in Ohio is centered around Geauga County.

Ohio's Amish Country in and around Holmes County is one of the state's primary tourist attractions and a major driver of the area's economy.

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^ "Amish Population Profile, 2023". Elizabethtown College, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. September 2, 2023. Archived from the original on September 2, 2023. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
^ "The Amish and Their Mennonite Neighbors". Best of Ohio's Amish Country. June 28, 2019. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved April 8, 2023. While there are a few small groups of Mennonites that do not own automobiles, there are none in the Holmes County community that do not permit ownership of the automobile. In the Greater Holmes County Amish Community, automobile ownership is one of the ways one can define whether they are Amish or Mennonite.

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[Elizabethtown_College,_the_Young_Center_for_Anabaptist_and_Pietist_Studies-2023-2] "Amish Population Profile, 2023". Elizabethtown College, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. September 2, 2023. Archived from the original on September 2, 2023. Retrieved September 3, 2023.

[3] "The Amish and Their Mennonite Neighbors". Best of Ohio's Amish Country. June 28, 2019. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023. Retrieved April 8, 2023. While there are a few small groups of Mennonites that do not own automobiles, there are none in the Holmes County community that do not permit ownership of the automobile. In the Greater Holmes County Amish Community, automobile ownership is one of the ways one can define whether they are Amish or Mennonite.

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