Languages spoken in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ

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 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton [PA-NJ]

Table showing languages spoken in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ

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	40	51	(B)	-
Albanian	395	351	125	96
Amharic	185	95	55	51
Bantu	285	191	170	131
Bengali	305	195	60	46
Bulgarian	195	126	75	56
Burmese	110	117	100	116
Cantonese	150	110	(D)	(D)
Chadic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cherokee	40	39	(B)	-
Chinese	2,910	540	1,420	312
Croatian	580	466	140	170
Czech	315	167	25	29
Danish	145	100	(D)	(D)
Delaware	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	440	125	85	67
Efik	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Estonian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	265	194	170	155
French	1,850	304	525	192
Fuchow	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Fulani	50	58	(B)	-
German	4,095	560	805	235
Icelandic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
India nec3	305	200	85	76
Indonesian	80	52	(B)	-
Irish Gaelic	60	48	(D)	(D)
Jamaican Creole	125	120	(B)	-
Kannada	15	15	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	485	205	110	77
Latvian	145	100	(B)	-
Lithuanian	40	34	(B)	-
Macedonian	25	28	(B)	-
Malayalam	305	170	20	37
Mandarin	485	194	115	68
Mande	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Marathi	225	127	(D)	(D)
Nepali	85	83	(B)	-
Norwegian	165	83	(D)	(D)
Panjabi	1,230	590	460	268
Papia Mentae	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pashto	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Patois	35	59	(B)	-
Pennsylvania Dutch	1,340	284	340	137
Portuguese	1,970	402	675	212
Romanian	295	223	100	94
Romany	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Samoan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sebuano	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Serbian	35	36	(D)	(D)
Serbocroatian	240	156	120	85
Slovak	500	183	120	68
Slovene	45	35	(D)	(D)
Spanish	75,240	1,579	29,650	1,234
Swahili	390	209	160	133
Swedish	135	149	(D)	(D)
Tamil	430	215	70	75
Telugu	385	199	35	27
Tibetan	15	17	(B)	-
Turkish	285	118	95	56
Ukrainian	705	243	325	145
Uncodable	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Welsh	20	22	(B)	-
Wu	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
African languages	1,451	369	506	212
Arabic	5,744	853	2,381	426
Armenian	22	26	(B)	-
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	3,825	628	1,722	348
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	1,884	318	527	192
French Creole	392	164	174	103
German (incl Luxembourgian)	4,093	560	804	235
Greek	1,119	295	223	107
Gujarati	1,261	389	401	151
Hebrew	325	107	22	23
Hindi	1,730	422	289	144
Hungarian	770	202	192	123
Italian	3,111	494	609	172
Japanese	349	140	142	83
Korean	809	248	398	144
Laotian	72	79	65	83
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	95	69	47	42
Other and unspecified languages	40	37	6	7
Other Asian languages	1,541	398	314	175
Other Indic languages	2,156	626	622	247
Other Indo-European languages	1,098	399	248	139
Other Native North American languages	45	40	(B)	-
Other Pacific Island languages	129	87	34	54
Other Slavic languages	1,788	325	553	169
Other West Germanic languages	1,821	316	424	143
Persian	250	136	99	66
Polish	3,010	747	944	314
Population 5 years and over	777,677	92	44,690	1,707
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	1,979	402	674	212
Russian	735	230	237	105
Scandinavian languages	460	201	47	44
Serbo-Croatian languages	855	505	274	202
Tagalog	1,199	304	395	158
Thai	117	87	32	30
Urdu	960	418	271	153
Vietnamese	2,197	507	1,363	347
Yiddish	64	48	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	8,375	963	3,107	523
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	10,333	747	4,512	529
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	28,788	1,525	7,420	683
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	75,239	1,579	29,651	1,234
Speak a language other than English at home	122,735	2,654	44,690	1,707
Speak only English at home	654,942	2,642	(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.