US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Connecticut

Of 3,442,817 residents of Connecticut aged 5 and over, 804,451 (23.4%) speak a language other than English at home, and 304,681 (8.8%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 439,949 speakers, followed by Portuguese (46,176).

Limited-English-proficiency counts are the best public proxy for local demand for interpreters and document translation in healthcare, courts, schools and social services.

Language spoken at homeSpeakers (5+)Speak English < “very well”
Spanish↗439,949181,410
Portuguese↗46,17621,101
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗31,98015,349
Polish↗27,19411,282
French (incl. Cajun)↗22,3504,071
Italian↗21,9435,752
Haitian↗18,6447,024
Other Indo-European languages ↗17,1865,239
Arabic↗14,0715,344
Russian↗11,1613,376
Hindi↗11,1192,013
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗9,3112,991
Other and unspecified languages ↗8,9961,495
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗8,2391,409
Vietnamese↗8,0734,303
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗7,7572,902
German↗7,737714
Gujarati↗7,6972,602
Tamil↗7,5991,429
Greek↗7,3991,862
Urdu↗7,2022,681
Korean↗6,7192,852
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗5,8951,215
Bengali↗5,7312,290
Serbo-Croatian↗5,3701,925
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗4,5962,505
Telugu↗4,592714
Other languages of Asia ↗4,3281,679
Japanese↗3,281959
Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages↗3,252576

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B16001. Estimates have margins of error.