Languages spoken in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

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 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson [MD]

Table showing languages spoken in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

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	45	43	(D)	(D)
Afrikaans	210	148	(B)	-
Albanian	345	195	115	87
American Indian	55	46	(D)	(D)
Amharic	2,285	563	1,075	422
Azerbaijani	215	256	135	165
Balinese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bantu	680	242	160	117
Bengali	2,260	672	520	261
Bielorussian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bihari	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bikol	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bisayan	205	141	25	23
Bulgarian	420	197	70	52
Burmese	900	447	490	342
Cantonese	1,270	291	540	178
Catalonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Caucasian	190	173	110	98
Chadic	120	90	40	43
Chamorro	20	23	(B)	-
Cherokee	35	46	(B)	-
Chinese	14,185	1,203	6,840	826
Choctaw	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cree	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Croatian	130	82	40	42
Cushite	205	143	35	34
Czech	325	129	85	74
Danish	310	209	(B)	-
Dravidian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	830	218	35	29
Efik	75	55	(D)	(D)
Estonian	120	70	45	45
Finnish	125	104	(B)	-
Formosan	585	173	295	144
French	15,035	1,503	3,140	537
Frisian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Fulani	830	398	400	218
German	7,915	627	1,005	204
Gondi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Gur	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Hawaiian	30	33	(B)	-
Icelandic	80	88	(D)	(D)
Ilocano	235	215	40	66
India nec3	330	241	110	105
Indonesian	305	236	35	38
Inupik	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Irish Gaelic	95	60	(D)	(D)
Jamaican Creole	395	192	85	81
Kannada	415	173	(D)	(D)
Kashmiri	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Krio	340	242	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	11,510	1,257	1,995	546
Kurdish	115	95	(D)	(D)
Latvian	225	218	60	65
Lithuanian	435	164	155	86
Makah	35	51	35	51
Malagasy	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malay	25	36	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	1,530	417	280	125
Mandarin	2,520	552	825	276
Mande	345	165	70	78
Marathi	420	187	20	23
Mbum (and related)	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Mien	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Mohawk	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Muskogee	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Nepali	1,770	526	1,230	395
Nilotic	85	66	(B)	-
Norwegian	185	116	(B)	-
Ojibwa	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Oriya	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pakistan nec3	265	327	55	56
Palau	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Paleo-siberian	45	78	(D)	(D)
Pampangan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Panjabi	1,710	560	480	216
Pashto	140	123	50	62
Patois	710	364	35	40
Pennsylvania Dutch	45	40	(B)	-
Pidgin	50	52	(D)	(D)
Portuguese	2,835	647	775	262
Quechua	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Romanian	475	198	80	67
Romany	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Samoan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sebuano	135	78	(D)	(D)
Serbian	345	171	100	116
Serbocroatian	400	184	145	94
Sindhi	95	97	(D)	(D)
Sinhalese	450	322	190	217
Slovak	140	102	45	54
Slovene	105	99	35	47
Spanish	99,885	2,501	41,745	1,916
Sudanic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Swahili	2,365	510	640	285
Swedish	375	149	(D)	(D)
Syriac	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tamil	2,470	578	375	177
Telugu	3,780	727	520	201
Tibetan	75	84	(D)	(D)
Turkish	1,580	525	620	340
Uighur	195	153	160	138
Ukrainian	1,215	354	360	185
Uncodable	50	42	(B)	-
Wu	35	42	(B)	-
African languages	18,657	1,493	4,494	823
Arabic	6,076	997	1,497	387
Armenian	236	98	31	37
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	18,594	1,341	8,498	950
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	15,747	1,629	3,176	541
French Creole	2,099	480	431	187
German (incl Luxembourgian)	7,914	627	1,004	204
Greek	5,185	637	1,156	239
Gujarati	4,879	814	1,992	463
Hebrew	2,877	595	379	164
Hindi	5,523	827	1,175	379
Hungarian	700	277	196	163
Italian	5,077	526	1,032	202
Japanese	2,618	466	671	245
Korean	19,372	1,635	10,567	1,146
Laotian	183	142	108	97
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	190	137	95	72
Navajo	27	27	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	505	234	169	110
Other Asian languages	11,268	1,179	2,702	566
Other Indic languages	7,335	1,162	2,614	506
Other Indo-European languages	2,625	556	637	223
Other Native North American languages	276	138	52	53
Other Pacific Island languages	1,082	376	157	92
Other Slavic languages	2,232	446	623	227
Other West Germanic languages	1,099	284	34	29
Persian	3,613	591	1,201	282
Polish	2,798	480	800	231
Population 5 years and over	2,565,050	179	104,273	2,824
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	2,836	647	773	262
Russian	10,910	1,078	5,086	640
Scandinavian languages	953	293	30	28
Serbo-Croatian languages	875	267	284	156
Tagalog	13,124	1,356	4,004	575
Thai	1,197	339	413	146
Urdu	9,140	1,160	3,147	607
Vietnamese	5,892	850	3,220	633
Yiddish	384	117	79	50
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	29,118	1,943	6,787	931
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	73,520	2,256	30,435	1,581
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	91,460	3,025	25,305	1,278
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	99,885	2,501	41,746	1,916
Speak a language other than English at home	293,983	4,036	104,273	2,824
Speak only English at home	2,271,067	4,018	(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.