US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Kansas

Of 2,770,418 residents of Kansas aged 5 and over, 335,262 (12.1%) speak a language other than English at home, and 132,444 (4.8%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 223,357 speakers, followed by Vietnamese (12,367).

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↗223,35791,513
Vietnamese↗12,3677,846
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗9,7354,660
German↗9,5731,533
Arabic↗6,2261,877
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗4,9401,742
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗4,7632,552
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗4,7321,259
French (incl. Cajun)↗4,2611,062
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗4,2462,285
Telugu↗4,150819
Other languages of Asia ↗4,1172,526
Hindi↗3,532647
Korean↗3,3331,188
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗2,6541,033
Russian↗2,4911,117
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗2,296324
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗2,253567
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗2,241390
Japanese↗2,064496
Bengali↗2,050607
Portuguese↗1,984487
Hmong ↗1,807630
Urdu↗1,728469
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗1,624479
Other and unspecified languages ↗1,492671
Khmer↗1,347890
Punjabi↗1,187320
Other Indo-European languages ↗1,166393
Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages↗1,055198

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