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Highest second languages by state

Share who speak a language other than English at home.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

Residents aged five and over who speak a language other than English at home. It says nothing about how well they speak English — most also speak it well, and the Census publishes that separately. Published as the English-only share; this is its complement.

  1. 1California44.4%
  2. 2Texas35.2%
  3. 3New Jersey33.2%
  4. 4New Mexico31.4%
  5. 5New York30.9%
  6. 6Florida30.7%
  7. 7Nevada29.5%
  8. 8Arizona25.8%
  9. 9Massachusetts25.1%
  10. 10Hawaii24.7%
  11. 11Illinois24.1%
  12. 12Connecticut23.4%
  13. 13Rhode Island23.2%
  14. 14Washington21.5%
  15. 15Maryland21.1%
  16. 16District of Columbia19.1%
  17. 17Virginia17.5%
  18. 18Colorado16.2%
  19. 19Utah15.9%
  20. 20Georgia15.5%
  21. 21Oregon15.3%
  22. 22Alaska15.1%
  23. 23Delaware15.1%
  24. 24North Carolina13.5%
  25. 25Nebraska12.8%
  26. 26Minnesota12.5%
  27. 27Pennsylvania12.4%
  28. 28Kansas12.2%
  29. 29Oklahoma11.5%
  30. 30Idaho11.0%
  31. 31Indiana10.4%
  32. 32Michigan10.4%
  33. 33Iowa9.2%
  34. 34Wisconsin9.1%
  35. 35Tennessee8.7%
  36. 36Louisiana8.5%
  37. 37South Carolina8.4%
  38. 38Arkansas8.3%
  39. 39New Hampshire8.0%
  40. 40Ohio8.0%
  41. 41South Dakota7.1%
  42. 42Kentucky6.8%
  43. 43Wyoming6.8%
  44. 44Missouri6.7%
  45. 45North Dakota6.7%
  46. 46Alabama6.1%
  47. 47Maine6.1%
  48. 48Vermont5.5%
  49. 49Mississippi4.3%
  50. 50Montana4.2%
  51. 51West Virginia2.5%
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. · How this is built