US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year
Languages spoken in Nevada
Of 3,009,889 residents of Nevada aged 5 and over, 886,585 (29.5%) speak a language other than English at home, and 337,676 (11.2%) speak English less than "very well".
The most common non-English language is Spanish with 600,083 speakers, followed by Tagalog (incl. Filipino) (89,719).
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↗ | 600,083 | 235,380 | |
| Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗ | 89,719 | 27,043 | |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗ | 36,142 | 20,049 | |
| Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗ | 12,274 | 5,377 | |
| Korean↗ | 12,070 | 6,217 | |
| Vietnamese↗ | 11,920 | 6,622 | |
| Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗ | 11,416 | 4,010 | |
| French (incl. Cajun)↗ | 7,486 | 1,109 | |
| German↗ | 7,337 | 783 | |
| Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗ | 7,260 | 3,854 | |
| Arabic↗ | 7,237 | 2,369 | |
| Japanese↗ | 6,673 | 2,467 | |
| Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗ | 6,011 | 2,631 | |
| Russian↗ | 5,574 | 1,839 | |
| Portuguese↗ | 5,412 | 1,366 | |
| Other Indo-European languages ↗ | 5,255 | 1,129 | |
| Serbo-Croatian↗ | 3,884 | 1,318 | |
| Italian↗ | 3,852 | 1,285 | |
| Other and unspecified languages ↗ | 3,577 | 597 | |
| Hindi↗ | 3,528 | 451 | |
| Armenian↗ | 3,500 | 1,253 | |
| Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗ | 3,496 | 1,097 | |
| Hebrew↗ | 3,132 | 746 | |
| Polish↗ | 2,887 | 1,008 | |
| Punjabi↗ | 2,475 | 516 | |
| Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗ | 2,458 | 919 | |
| Telugu↗ | 1,998 | 503 | |
| Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗ | 1,997 | 860 | |
| Other languages of Asia ↗ | 1,952 | 700 | |
| Urdu↗ | 1,931 | 589 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B16001. Estimates have margins of error.