Languages spoken in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

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 Albany-Schenectady-Troy [NY]

Table showing languages spoken in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

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
African	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Afrikaans	25	26	(B)	-
Albanian	900	409	520	254
American Indian	35	35	(B)	-
Amharic	50	55	(D)	(D)
Bantu	105	97	(D)	(D)
Bengali	1,220	401	555	214
Bisayan	55	70	(B)	-
Bulgarian	285	327	(D)	(D)
Burmese	80	91	80	91
Cantonese	410	181	115	80
Catalonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Caucasian	10	16	(D)	(D)
Chadic	145	157	(D)	(D)
Chamorro	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	5,520	675	2,890	485
Croatian	230	169	(D)	(D)
Czech	25	29	(B)	-
Dakota	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Danish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	350	149	65	56
Estonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
French	4,540	517	1,085	244
Fulani	20	17	(D)	(D)
German	2,595	361	455	146
Icelandic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
India nec3	130	161	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	45	64	(D)	(D)
Irish Gaelic	85	72	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	205	144	155	115
Kannada	60	36	(D)	(D)
Karachay	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Karen	345	261	300	223
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	855	364	145	109
Latvian	100	114	(D)	(D)
Lithuanian	65	47	(B)	-
Malagasy	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malay	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	420	189	80	73
Mandarin	975	285	405	232
Maori	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Marathi	85	102	(B)	-
Mohawk	25	30	(B)	-
Mongolian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nepali	100	109	(B)	-
Nilotic	115	153	(B)	-
Norwegian	100	66	(D)	(D)
Oriya	60	77	(D)	(D)
Oto - Manguen	130	149	130	149
Pakistan nec3	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	385	158	85	57
Pashto	955	736	465	437
Patois	100	106	(B)	-
Pennsylvania Dutch	65	48	(D)	(D)
Portuguese	610	252	180	131
Romanian	155	116	110	96
Scottic Gaelic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Serbian	115	116	35	40
Serbocroatian	250	177	105	76
Sinhalese	30	46	(B)	-
Slovak	80	52	30	39
Slovene	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Spanish	23,110	1,266	7,065	759
Swahili	330	220	(B)	-
Swedish	115	72	(B)	-
Syriac	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tamil	600	268	50	56
Telugu	1,025	347	185	127
Tibetan	50	52	25	34
Tongan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Turkish	250	157	45	62
Ukrainian	720	351	345	174
Uncodable	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Welsh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Wu	35	37	(B)	-
African languages	1,634	508	206	126
Arabic	2,501	674	820	271
Armenian	283	132	68	58
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	6,948	734	3,415	492
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	4,641	511	1,084	244
French Creole	781	279	164	114
German (incl Luxembourgian)	2,594	361	456	146
Greek	1,065	378	325	131
Gujarati	752	302	199	148
Hebrew	613	214	105	76
Hindi	1,372	433	193	116
Hungarian	163	77	84	50
Italian	4,879	523	1,552	248
Japanese	705	189	319	98
Korean	2,110	528	951	319
Laotian	94	94	39	61
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	16	25	9	14
Other and unspecified languages	160	154	138	149
Other Asian languages	2,856	502	769	249
Other Indic languages	2,025	480	732	248
Other Indo-European languages	2,491	802	1,287	493
Other Native North American languages	66	43	(B)	-
Other Pacific Island languages	163	107	27	34
Other Slavic languages	1,123	515	531	284
Other West Germanic languages	443	164	77	60
Persian	468	196	217	111
Polish	2,110	363	659	193
Population 5 years and over	826,588	97	24,546	1,510
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	608	252	181	131
Russian	1,926	477	715	178
Scandinavian languages	227	93	11	13
Serbo-Croatian languages	596	284	155	93
Tagalog	1,199	425	358	198
Thai	432	205	253	170
Urdu	1,882	536	686	223
Vietnamese	940	319	609	251
Yiddish	269	105	88	80
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	5,137	874	1,353	323
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	15,463	860	6,749	664
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	30,535	1,435	9,380	916
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	23,110	1,266	7,064	759
Speak a language other than English at home	74,245	2,146	24,546	1,510
Speak only English at home	752,343	2,133	(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.