US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in New Hampshire

Of 1,332,089 residents of New Hampshire aged 5 and over, 105,824 (7.9%) speak a language other than English at home, and 31,190 (2.3%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 34,831 speakers, followed by French (incl. Cajun) (15,152).

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↗34,83112,345
French (incl. Cajun)↗15,1522,950
Portuguese↗5,4791,768
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗5,0182,063
German↗3,930541
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗2,773929
Greek↗2,532414
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗2,5181,146
Arabic↗2,510706
Russian↗2,488783
Other Indo-European languages ↗2,166506
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗1,882349
Vietnamese↗1,745981
Korean↗1,740942
Telugu↗1,724382
Hindi↗1,555277
Italian↗1,447165
Serbo-Croatian↗1,280562
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗1,144153
Polish↗1,107195
Tamil↗1,09384
Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages↗1,03785
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗1,035454
Other and unspecified languages ↗968129
Gujarati↗96086
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗883412
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗87564
Haitian↗856291
Other languages of Asia ↗846306
Japanese↗794134

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