Languages Spoken At Home Other Than English (2013)

Regionally speaking.....

However in those 1 out of 10 households...

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To see a more specific listing of locally spoken languages, see this older post about languages spoken at home!

Most Common Language Spoken in Each State After English and Spanish

Ben Blatt of Slate, has created a series of maps looking at the most popular language spoken in each US state. He used data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to create these. They offer an interesting look at language in each state, especially when English and Spanish are removed from the equation..

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 Locally, here are the top 10 languages for people ages 5 and over AFTER English and Spanish for the two county region.

Speaking of Other Languages...

My last post was all about how you can see counties across the country where a significant portion of the population speaks some other language at home than English. There was a link to an interactive map where you could click on a county and learn a little about what language other than English is predominant there.

Below is a map of the tracts in Oneida County where at least 10% of the residents speak languages other than English at home. Since many of these areas are in either Utica or Rome, a second map appears providing a closer look at the two cities. Notice that there are several tracts in which more than a quarter of the population speaks something other than English at home, and two tracts where more than half of the population speaks non-English when at home.

Oneida County Map

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Utica-Rome Area Map

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Mapping Other Languages Spoken at Home

The Washington Post has a cool map on its website showing counties in the US where at least 10% of the population speaks something other than English at home. If you click on the map below, you can see that most of the counties where this is the case are in the southwest portion of the country, with pockets in the northwest, in Florida and along the northeastern seaboard. Oh, and then there's Oneida County in upstate NY !

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If you go to the interactive map you can click on a county and learn a little about what language other than English is predominant there.

Languages Spoken At Home: Intereactive Census Maps

From the New York State Data Affiliates Blog comes this interesting tidbit: Did you know that more than 300 different languages are spoken in the United States? A new report and mapping tool released by the U.S. Census Bureau takes a detailed look at many of the most popular languages spoken at home in America.

Of the 292 million people age 5 and older in the U.S. in 2011, 60.6 million individuals, or 21 percent, reported speaking a language other than English at home. This number grew by 158 percent from 1980 to 2010, while the nation’s overall population age 5 years and older grew by 38 percent. Check out this viz-of-the-week to see which languages grew the most.

The statistics show us not only that people spoke a language other than English at home, but also how well they spoke English.

If you are wondering what languages are spoken in your community, you can look it up with a new tool. The 2011 Language Mapper illustrates the geographic concentration of the population speaking 15 individual languages. The mapper, which uses data collected in the American Community Survey from 2007 to 2011, also shows, for each of these languages, the concentration of those who spoke English less than “very well.” You can put in an address to get to our area at the upper right of the map, and also select the language combination you are interested in as well.

More from the Census Bureau.