US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Mississippi

Of 2,771,334 residents of Mississippi aged 5 and over, 118,835 (4.3%) speak a language other than English at home, and 47,202 (1.7%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 73,687 speakers, followed by Vietnamese (5,399).

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↗73,68732,025
Vietnamese↗5,3992,779
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗4,5082,303
Other Native languages of North America ↗4,199836
Arabic↗3,7451,578
French (incl. Cajun)↗3,468824
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗2,720761
German↗2,500410
Hindi↗1,298223
Punjabi↗1,275598
Japanese↗1,100500
Korean↗1,091526
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗1,056191
Italian↗979330
Other and unspecified languages ↗941245
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗891216
Portuguese↗869153
Bengali↗838405
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗791165
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗725328
Gujarati↗699198
Russian↗631125
Urdu↗61079
Other Indo-European languages ↗568116
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗539103
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗504284
Telugu↗41277
Other languages of Asia ↗377199
Haitian↗374134
Polish↗32056

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