US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year
Languages spoken in Florida
Of 21,289,728 residents of Florida aged 5 and over, 6,520,270 (30.6%) speak a language other than English at home, and 2,663,509 (12.5%) speak English less than "very well".
The most common non-English language is Spanish with 4,801,213 speakers, followed by Haitian (461,611).
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 home | Speakers (5+) | Speak English < “very well” | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish↗ | 4,801,213 | 2,076,728 | |
| Haitian↗ | 461,611 | 189,519 | |
| Portuguese↗ | 180,522 | 66,718 | |
| French (incl. Cajun)↗ | 106,740 | 24,867 | |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗ | 76,735 | 39,871 | |
| Arabic↗ | 76,456 | 20,900 | |
| Russian↗ | 74,440 | 29,963 | |
| Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗ | 73,920 | 18,829 | |
| Vietnamese↗ | 72,873 | 41,180 | |
| German↗ | 61,027 | 7,017 | |
| Italian↗ | 46,662 | 10,452 | |
| Other Indo-European languages ↗ | 44,585 | 13,487 | |
| Other and unspecified languages ↗ | 39,840 | 9,997 | |
| Hindi↗ | 31,808 | 5,846 | |
| Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗ | 28,200 | 10,179 | |
| Polish↗ | 27,335 | 8,614 | |
| Gujarati↗ | 25,155 | 6,986 | |
| Hebrew↗ | 23,007 | 3,315 | |
| Other languages of Asia ↗ | 18,942 | 7,685 | |
| Serbo-Croatian↗ | 18,797 | 5,895 | |
| Greek↗ | 18,774 | 3,644 | |
| Urdu↗ | 17,555 | 3,951 | |
| Korean↗ | 17,487 | 8,512 | |
| Telugu↗ | 17,422 | 3,431 | |
| Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗ | 16,683 | 1,776 | |
| Bengali↗ | 16,519 | 6,076 | |
| Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗ | 15,185 | 8,319 | |
| Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages↗ | 14,317 | 3,017 | |
| Tamil↗ | 13,379 | 1,989 | |
| Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗ | 12,254 | 3,363 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B16001. Estimates have margins of error.