US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Oregon

Of 4,046,536 residents of Oregon aged 5 and over, 616,287 (15.2%) speak a language other than English at home, and 221,804 (5.5%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 365,276 speakers, followed by Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) (30,483).

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↗365,276137,684
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗30,48314,977
Vietnamese↗25,42214,501
Russian↗21,0678,022
German↗13,1901,808
French (incl. Cajun)↗12,0301,459
Japanese↗11,2382,886
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗10,9812,458
Korean↗10,3114,675
Other Indo-European languages ↗9,8831,990
Arabic↗9,4323,153
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗9,1434,306
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗8,9332,970
Hindi↗6,628774
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗5,1772,270
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗5,1521,906
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗5,1251,711
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗4,8922,475
Other languages of Asia ↗4,5131,953
Other and unspecified languages ↗4,5041,110
Telugu↗3,853647
Portuguese↗3,489571
Italian↗2,983640
Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages↗2,658191
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗2,552128
Hmong ↗2,490802
Tamil↗2,470302
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗2,372630
Bengali↗2,281463
Other Native languages of North America ↗2,093174

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