US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year

Languages spoken in Texas

Of 28,253,216 residents of Texas aged 5 and over, 9,913,837 (35.1%) speak a language other than English at home, and 3,666,736 (13.0%) speak English less than "very well".

The most common non-English language is Spanish with 7,932,949 speakers, followed by Vietnamese (247,783).

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↗7,932,9493,034,861
Vietnamese↗247,783138,935
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗195,84189,199
Arabic↗122,76233,701
Hindi↗103,50717,125
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗98,85113,930
Urdu↗93,41924,443
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗93,29322,163
Telugu↗86,18314,375
French (incl. Cajun)↗84,94017,780
Korean↗70,23733,596
German↗64,14111,716
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗61,08617,224
Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages↗54,53914,003
Tamil↗51,0138,160
Gujarati↗47,66114,499
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗43,77415,924
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗43,35112,073
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages↗42,73217,536
Portuguese↗42,4639,406
Other Indo-European languages ↗35,71210,714
Other languages of Asia ↗35,39817,636
Russian↗34,80410,557
Bengali↗27,3898,133
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗23,8006,843
Japanese↗23,0958,912
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗21,95711,197
Italian↗14,2332,834
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗14,0413,395
Other and unspecified languages ↗13,4203,744

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