US language data · 2024 ACS 5-year
Languages spoken in Vermont
Of 619,410 residents of Vermont aged 5 and over, 34,135 (5.5%) speak a language other than English at home, and 7,263 (1.2%) speak English less than "very well".
The most common non-English language is Spanish with 8,063 speakers, followed by French (incl. Cajun) (7,398).
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 home | Speakers (5+) | Speak English < “very well” | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish↗ | 8,063 | 1,451 | |
| French (incl. Cajun)↗ | 7,398 | 1,175 | |
| German↗ | 1,834 | 100 | |
| Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages↗ | 1,752 | 1,067 | |
| Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)↗ | 1,403 | 286 | |
| Other Indo-European languages ↗ | 1,040 | 207 | |
| Russian↗ | 949 | 231 | |
| Serbo-Croatian↗ | 943 | 396 | |
| Italian↗ | 774 | 46 | |
| Tagalog (incl. Filipino)↗ | 748 | 92 | |
| Portuguese↗ | 737 | 189 | |
| Vietnamese↗ | 709 | 420 | |
| Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages↗ | 634 | 241 | |
| Other languages of Asia ↗ | 620 | 347 | |
| Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa↗ | 595 | 75 | |
| Polish↗ | 578 | 88 | |
| Korean↗ | 446 | 156 | |
| Japanese↗ | 437 | 109 | |
| Arabic↗ | 418 | 156 | |
| Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages↗ | 413 | 22 | |
| Other and unspecified languages ↗ | 382 | 48 | |
| Ukrainian or other Slavic languages↗ | 362 | 74 | |
| Hindi↗ | 358 | 18 | |
| Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa↗ | 323 | 47 | |
| Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages ↗ | 283 | 22 | |
| Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari)↗ | 254 | 7 | |
| Greek↗ | 224 | 5 | |
| Tamil↗ | 191 | 15 | |
| Hebrew↗ | 182 | 0 | |
| Telugu↗ | 180 | 0 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates, table B16001. Estimates have margins of error.