US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Ohio

Of 11,140,750 residents of Ohio aged 5 and over, 893,150 (8.0%) speak a language other than English at home, and 321,075 (2.9%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 294,716 speakers, followed by Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages (62,928).

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↗294,716115,162
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗62,92819,809
Arabic↗48,08616,023
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗43,67320,366
German↗39,7379,284
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗37,39819,189
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗34,26512,444
French (incl. Cajun)↗31,18211,252
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗25,0326,656
Hindi↗21,3233,782
Russian↗17,0717,203
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗17,0367,462
Other Indo-European languages ↗15,5714,573
Telugu↗15,4823,254
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗14,9134,386
Vietnamese↗13,0526,586
Other languages of Asia ↗11,8575,670
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗11,5034,613
Italian↗11,2452,381
Japanese↗10,8765,535
Korean↗9,8503,964
Serbo-Croatian↗9,5703,351
Gujarati↗9,4982,798
Portuguese↗8,0822,639
Urdu↗7,6471,794
Other and unspecified languages ↗7,5592,499
Tamil↗7,4831,255
Greek↗7,3401,452
Haitian↗6,0613,260
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗5,7421,899

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