US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Georgia

Of 10,304,177 residents of Georgia aged 5 and over, 1,592,544 (15.5%) speak a language other than English at home, and 602,706 (5.8%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 890,264 speakers, followed by Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) (61,447).

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↗890,264379,474
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗61,44729,885
Vietnamese↗55,26534,829
Korean↗53,29927,620
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗44,3796,874
French (incl. Cajun)↗39,6168,338
Hindi↗34,2736,083
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗32,0759,963
Gujarati↗26,6489,249
Portuguese↗26,4248,194
Telugu↗24,9724,360
Haitian↗24,6006,055
German↗23,1882,311
Arabic↗18,7444,299
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗17,8584,463
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗16,4224,476
Russian↗14,9894,571
Other Indo-European languages ↗14,9493,906
Tamil↗14,6541,919
Urdu↗14,6383,708
Other and unspecified languages ↗13,0642,629
Other languages of Asia ↗12,7845,650
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗12,6913,419
Bengali↗12,3174,621
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗11,2783,717
Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages↗10,8911,781
Japanese↗10,7153,955
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗6,9773,161
Serbo-Croatian↗6,9702,038
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗6,3442,004

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