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 homeSpeakers (5+)Speak English < “very well”
Spanish↗600,083235,380
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗89,71927,043
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗36,14220,049
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗12,2745,377
Korean↗12,0706,217
Vietnamese↗11,9206,622
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗11,4164,010
French (incl. Cajun)↗7,4861,109
German↗7,337783
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗7,2603,854
Arabic↗7,2372,369
Japanese↗6,6732,467
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗6,0112,631
Russian↗5,5741,839
Portuguese↗5,4121,366
Other Indo-European languages ↗5,2551,129
Serbo-Croatian↗3,8841,318
Italian↗3,8521,285
Other and unspecified languages ↗3,577597
Hindi↗3,528451
Armenian↗3,5001,253
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗3,4961,097
Hebrew↗3,132746
Polish↗2,8871,008
Punjabi↗2,475516
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗2,458919
Telugu↗1,998503
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗1,997860
Other languages of Asia ↗1,952700
Urdu↗1,931589

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