US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Indiana

Of 6,441,838 residents of Indiana aged 5 and over, 664,171 (10.3%) speak a language other than English at home, and 251,456 (3.9%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 353,025 speakers, followed by Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages (35,784).

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↗353,025143,205
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗35,7849,444
German↗33,1317,602
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗24,21011,581
Other languages of Asia ↗24,16015,478
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗15,1913,437
French (incl. Cajun)↗14,2255,266
Arabic↗14,0716,252
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗10,9933,171
Punjabi↗10,3804,581
Haitian↗9,3156,088
Hindi↗9,2711,368
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗7,6572,777
Korean↗7,2333,015
Vietnamese↗7,0974,109
Gujarati↗5,8211,434
Japanese↗5,6632,648
Other Indo-European languages ↗5,3611,380
Urdu↗5,2881,336
Tamil↗5,280510
Serbo-Croatian↗5,2391,791
Polish↗5,1941,238
Telugu↗5,1441,114
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗4,5541,131
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗4,241817
Portuguese↗4,134654
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗4,0471,994
Russian↗4,0181,238
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗3,472969
Other and unspecified languages ↗3,207805

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