Where Is Amharic Spoken in the US? Speakers by State

610,483 people in the United States speak Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages at home (ACS 2024), and 238,409 of them (39%) speak English less than "very well".

The largest Amharic-speaking populations are in Minnesota, California, Virginia and Texas.

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#	State	Speakers	Limited English	Share LEP
1	Minnesota	97,586	40,943	42%
2	California	60,934	23,456	38%
3	Virginia	44,750	15,579	35%
4	Texas	42,732	17,536	41%
5	Maryland	42,173	14,066	33%
6	Washington	39,305	16,114	41%
7	Ohio	34,265	12,444	36%
8	Georgia	32,075	9,963	31%
9	Michigan	29,447	11,698	40%
10	Illinois	20,796	7,920	38%
11	Colorado	17,945	8,417	47%
12	New York	17,058	5,868	34%
13	Nevada	12,274	5,377	44%
14	North Carolina	10,807	5,021	46%
15	Arizona	10,590	3,115	29%
16	Massachusetts	10,075	4,161	41%
17	District of Columbia	8,379	4,122	49%
18	Pennsylvania	7,704	3,695	48%
19	Tennessee	7,601	3,322	44%
20	Missouri	7,256	2,864	39%
21	Florida	5,826	1,720	30%
22	New Jersey	5,446	1,472	27%
23	Oregon	5,177	2,270	44%
24	Kansas	4,763	2,552	54%
25	Wisconsin	4,561	1,543	34%
26	Indiana	4,047	1,994	49%
27	Iowa	3,925	1,781	45%
28	Nebraska	3,482	2,369	68%
29	South Dakota	3,115	863	28%
30	Maine	3,066	1,348	44%
31	Kentucky	2,579	1,256	49%
32	South Carolina	1,627	237	15%
33	Connecticut	1,400	528	38%
34	Utah	1,357	351	26%
35	North Dakota	1,240	775	62%
36	Louisiana	1,085	226	21%
37	Oklahoma	1,009	287	28%
38	Idaho	592	266	45%
39	Rhode Island	351	225	64%
40	Alabama	321	149	46%
41	Mississippi	307	56	18%
42	New Hampshire	302	137	45%
43	Delaware	300	88	29%
44	West Virginia	279	45	16%
45	Alaska	161	120	75%
46	New Mexico	155	37	24%
47	Arkansas	152	12	8%
48	Vermont	47	5	11%
49	Wyoming	30	0	0%
50	Hawaii	19	7	37%
51	Montana	10	9	90%

State

Speakers

Limited English

Share LEP

Minnesota

97,586

40,943

42%

California

60,934

23,456

38%