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 home | Speakers (5+) | Speak English < “very well” | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish↗ | 73,687 | 32,025 | |
| Vietnamese↗ | 5,399 | 2,779 | |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗ | 4,508 | 2,303 | |
| Other Native languages of North America ↗ | 4,199 | 836 | |
| Arabic↗ | 3,745 | 1,578 | |
| French (incl. Cajun)↗ | 3,468 | 824 | |
| Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗ | 2,720 | 761 | |
| German↗ | 2,500 | 410 | |
| Hindi↗ | 1,298 | 223 | |
| Punjabi↗ | 1,275 | 598 | |
| Japanese↗ | 1,100 | 500 | |
| Korean↗ | 1,091 | 526 | |
| Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗ | 1,056 | 191 | |
| Italian↗ | 979 | 330 | |
| Other and unspecified languages ↗ | 941 | 245 | |
| Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗ | 891 | 216 | |
| Portuguese↗ | 869 | 153 | |
| Bengali↗ | 838 | 405 | |
| Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗ | 791 | 165 | |
| Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗ | 725 | 328 | |
| Gujarati↗ | 699 | 198 | |
| Russian↗ | 631 | 125 | |
| Urdu↗ | 610 | 79 | |
| Other Indo-European languages ↗ | 568 | 116 | |
| Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗ | 539 | 103 | |
| Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗ | 504 | 284 | |
| Telugu↗ | 412 | 77 | |
| Other languages of Asia ↗ | 377 | 199 | |
| Haitian↗ | 374 | 134 | |
| Polish↗ | 320 | 56 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B16001. Estimates have margins of error.