Languages spoken in Akron, OH

In October 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau released the "2009-2013 American Community Survey" which provides information on "languages spoken at home" and "ability to speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over" for the United States as a whole, states including Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., selected counties, and selected cities and urban areas. The following provides aggregated survey information on languages spoken in Akron [OH]

Table showing languages spoken in Akron, OH

Population 5 years and over
Speak only English at home
Speak a language other than English at home
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

French (incl. Patois, Cajun)

French Creole

Italian

Portuguese (incl. Portuguese Creole)

German (incl. Luxembourgian)

Yiddish

Other West Germanic languages

Scandinavian languages

Greek

Russian

Polish

Serbo-Croatian languages

Other Slavic languages

Other Indic languages

Other Indo-European languages

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES

Chinese (incl. Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages)

Other Asian languages

Tagalog

Other Pacific Island languages

ALL OTHER LANGUAGES

Navajo

Other Native North American languages

Other and unspecified languages

BY STATE
BY COUNTY
BY CITY

Language	Number of speakers	Margin of Error	Speak English less than "Very Well"	Margin of Error
Afrikaans	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Albanian	255	246	85	99
Amharic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bantu	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bengali	210	138	65	62
Bisayan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bulgarian	85	101	(D)	(D)
Burmese	55	51	55	51
Cantonese	130	81	(D)	(D)
Chinese	2,800	501	1,475	337
Croatian	180	125	40	27
Czech	90	61	35	38
Danish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	210	125	55	69
Estonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
French	1,415	290	190	83
Fulani	55	57	35	40
German	2,435	365	360	130
Gur	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Hakka	80	124	80	124
India nec3	100	135	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Irish Gaelic	195	204	(D)	(D)
Jamaican Creole	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kannada	135	131	(D)	(D)
Karen	355	286	335	258
Krio	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	375	161	45	45
Latvian	75	71	(B)	-
Lithuanian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Macedonian	75	60	(D)	(D)
Malagasy	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malay	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	20	28	(B)	-
Mandarin	405	141	210	113
Marathi	50	53	(B)	-
Nepali	800	397	680	359
Norwegian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	700	342	415	240
Pennsylvania Dutch	255	142	30	27
Portuguese	80	56	25	26
Romanian	325	154	155	83
Sebuano	90	93	40	48
Serbian	930	350	295	131
Serbocroatian	555	296	180	132
Sinhalese	130	132	110	126
Slovak	80	53	(D)	(D)
Slovene	90	64	(D)	(D)
Spanish	8,060	740	2,515	397
Swahili	135	97	50	62
Swedish	60	50	(D)	(D)
Tamil	205	146	(D)	(D)
Telugu	160	116	70	91
Turkish	180	114	120	92
Ukrainian	260	145	55	40
African languages	606	176	150	90
Arabic	3,063	846	1,035	351
Armenian	47	51	25	37
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	3,441	529	1,778	383
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	1,415	290	189	83
French Creole	35	47	27	45
German (incl Luxembourgian)	2,437	365	360	130
Greek	554	178	144	79
Gujarati	394	160	168	90
Hebrew	123	66	1	2
Hindi	1,184	449	132	73
Hmong	304	248	98	87
Hungarian	749	184	239	100
Italian	1,345	244	387	123
Japanese	515	149	118	65
Korean	1,132	345	682	284
Laotian	436	196	232	117
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	150	130	105	95
Other and unspecified languages	33	33	(B)	-
Other Asian languages	1,116	340	590	301
Other Indic languages	1,992	634	1,337	508
Other Indo-European languages	888	337	248	126
Other Pacific Island languages	158	110	73	55
Other Slavic languages	677	236	163	67
Other West Germanic languages	497	197	82	74
Persian	212	143	65	74
Polish	516	186	59	43
Population 5 years and over	666,042	15	13,039	905
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	79	56	23	26
Russian	906	292	564	203
Scandinavian languages	112	62	18	28
Serbo-Croatian languages	1,664	505	516	189
Tagalog	535	193	161	83
Thai	242	146	128	94
Urdu	79	78	14	20
Vietnamese	1,119	540	614	310
Yiddish	7	12	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	4,574	949	1,425	396
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	9,148	758	4,579	558
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	15,040	1,213	4,521	634
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	8,060	740	2,514	397
Speak a language other than English at home	36,822	1,543	13,039	905
Speak only English at home	629,220	1,544	(X)	(X)

Notes

Number of speakers and Speak English less than "Very Well": Detailed-language estimates are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Aggregate estimates ("language category" and "language sub-category" entries) are unrounded and appear in table B16001. Detailed-language estimates may not sum to aggregate estimates because of rounding.
Margin of Error and Margin of Error: Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted roughly as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data. The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.
(D): Data withheld to avoid disclosure.
(B): Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute an estimate.
(X): Question does not apply.
-: Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the margin of error. A statistical test is not appropriate.
3 N.E.C. stands for not elsewhere classified. These are languages where respondents indicated they spoke either Indian or Pakistan. For Indian, it cannot be determined if the respondent spoke a native American language or spoke a language from India. For Pakistan, respondents wrote in Pakistan but it cannot be determined which one of the languages spoken in Pakistan is actually being spoken. To distinguish these languages, n.e.c. is used to indicated they are not classified in any other language code.
This category includes literal write-ins of Chinese as well as Hakka, Kan, Hsiang, Cantonese, Mandarin, Fuchow, Formosan, and Wu.