US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Idaho

Of 1,820,514 residents of Idaho aged 5 and over, 199,717 (11.0%) speak a language other than English at home, and 67,849 (3.7%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 147,208 speakers, followed by German (4,761).

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↗147,20851,778
German↗4,761759
Russian↗3,780733
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗3,7121,347
French (incl. Cajun)↗3,682535
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗2,5351,125
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗2,439635
Arabic↗2,4261,192
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗2,3101,090
Portuguese↗2,078341
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗1,835699
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗1,798889
Japanese↗1,777277
Korean↗1,763857
Vietnamese↗1,642906
Other Indo-European languages ↗1,615256
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗1,493618
Serbo-Croatian↗1,407558
Other Native languages of North America ↗1,254209
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗1,243799
Other and unspecified languages ↗1,144353
Other languages of Asia ↗1,030549
Italian↗863190
Hindi↗816150
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗798118
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗592266
Telugu↗52330
Polish↗47623
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗424152
Urdu↗38877

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