Where Is Malayalam Spoken in the US? Speakers by State

301,978 people in the United States speak Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages at home (ACS 2024), and 65,056 of them (22%) speak English less than "very well".

The largest Malayalam-speaking populations are in Texas, California, New York and New Jersey.

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#	State	Speakers	Limited English	Share LEP
1	Texas	54,539	14,003	26%
2	California	44,501	7,637	17%
3	New York	28,424	9,320	33%
4	New Jersey	20,017	3,843	19%
5	Illinois	18,468	5,089	28%
6	Pennsylvania	18,103	6,338	35%
7	Florida	14,317	3,017	21%
8	Georgia	10,891	1,781	16%
9	Washington	10,243	1,178	12%
10	Michigan	9,907	1,674	17%
11	Virginia	7,647	1,026	13%
12	North Carolina	7,165	750	10%
13	Massachusetts	6,905	849	12%
14	Maryland	6,261	1,074	17%
15	Ohio	5,217	675	13%
16	Arizona	3,842	683	18%
17	Connecticut	3,252	576	18%
18	Oregon	2,658	191	7%
19	Minnesota	2,491	348	14%
20	Oklahoma	2,419	958	40%
21	Tennessee	2,397	551	23%
22	Wisconsin	2,377	463	19%
23	Colorado	2,295	397	17%
24	Missouri	2,155	274	13%
25	Indiana	2,018	385	19%
26	South Carolina	1,507	308	20%
27	Kentucky	1,277	313	25%
28	Iowa	1,259	32	3%
29	Delaware	1,120	68	6%
30	Utah	1,113	118	11%
31	Kansas	1,055	198	19%
32	New Hampshire	1,037	85	8%
33	Arkansas	631	90	14%
34	Nevada	595	75	13%
35	Nebraska	589	41	7%
36	Rhode Island	572	78	14%
37	New Mexico	562	203	36%
38	Alabama	474	71	15%
39	Louisiana	465	31	7%
40	Idaho	282	116	41%
41	Mississippi	255	110	43%
42	District of Columbia	175	0	0%
43	Maine	167	0	0%
44	Hawaii	87	0	0%
45	West Virginia	72	23	32%
46	South Dakota	64	16	25%
47	Vermont	35	0	0%
48	Alaska	27	0	0%
49	North Dakota	22	0	0%
50	Montana	14	0	0%
51	Wyoming	13	0	0%

State

Speakers

Limited English

Share LEP

Texas

54,539

14,003

26%

California

44,501

7,637

17%