Languages spoken in the US, by state
Census data on languages spoken at home — and how many speakers have limited English — is the best public guide to where translators and interpreters are needed. Nationally, 70,375,509 of 316,142,548 residents aged 5+ speak a language other than English at home.
States
- Alabama6.0%
- Alaska15.1%
- Arizona25.7%
- Arkansas8.3%
- California44.4%
- Colorado16.2%
- Connecticut23.4%
- Delaware15.1%
- District of Columbia19.1%
- Florida30.6%
- Georgia15.5%
- Hawaii24.7%
- Idaho11.0%
- Illinois24.0%
- Indiana10.3%
- Iowa9.1%
- Kansas12.1%
- Kentucky6.8%
- Louisiana8.5%
- Maine6.0%
- Maryland21.1%
- Massachusetts25.1%
- Michigan10.4%
- Minnesota12.4%
- Mississippi4.3%
- Missouri6.7%
- Montana4.2%
- Nebraska12.8%
- Nevada29.5%
- New Hampshire7.9%
- New Jersey33.1%
- New Mexico31.3%
- New York30.9%
- North Carolina13.5%
- North Dakota6.7%
- Ohio8.0%
- Oklahoma11.5%
- Oregon15.2%
- Pennsylvania12.4%
- Puerto Rico95.5%
- Rhode Island23.1%
- South Carolina8.4%
- South Dakota7.1%
- Tennessee8.6%
- Texas35.1%
- Utah15.9%
- Vermont5.5%
- Virginia17.4%
- Washington21.4%
- West Virginia2.5%
- Wisconsin9.0%
- Wyoming6.8%
Languages
- Spanish45.9M
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)3.6M
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)1.8M
- Vietnamese1.6M
- Arabic1.4M
- French (incl. Cajun)1.2M
- Korean1.1M
- Portuguese1M
- Russian1M
- Haitian937.8K
- Hindi930.9K
- German858.8K
- Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa689.3K
- Other Indo-European languages649.2K
- Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages610.5K
- Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages610K
- Urdu533.5K
- Italian520.3K
- Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)517.5K
- Telugu509.7K
- Polish509.1K
- Other languages of Asia495.1K
- Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages483.4K
- Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages483K
- Gujarati466K
- Japanese462.4K
- Ukrainian or other Slavic languages440.6K
- Bengali430.1K
- Tamil346.6K
- Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa343.9K
- Punjabi334K
- Other and unspecified languages330.2K
- Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages302K
- Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages293K
- Greek254.9K
- Serbo-Croatian253.7K
- Armenian252.5K
- Hmong238.6K
- Hebrew225.6K
- Khmer197.5K
- Other Native languages of North America168.1K
- Navajo145.6K
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B16001.