Languages spoken in Baton Rouge, LA

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 Baton Rouge [LA]

Table showing languages spoken in Baton Rouge, LA

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	70	117	(B)	-
American Indian	25	31	25	31
Bantu	20	22	(D)	(D)
Bengali	195	136	100	88
Bisayan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bulgarian	65	55	(D)	(D)
Burmese	95	142	95	142
Cajun	1,275	303	135	80
Cantonese	135	145	(D)	(D)
Chadic	90	92	(B)	-
Chinese	2,395	449	1,430	340
Croatian	50	46	(D)	(D)
Cushite	90	142	(D)	(D)
Danish	60	55	(B)	-
Dutch	50	44	(D)	(D)
Estonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	45	52	(D)	(D)
French	7,225	755	1,060	234
Fulani	45	76	(D)	(D)
German	910	210	70	46
Hawaiian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ilocano	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Indonesian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Inupik	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	20	29	(B)	-
Kachin	80	125	80	125
Kannada	60	74	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	480	281	(B)	-
Malayalam	55	54	(D)	(D)
Mandarin	115	98	40	49
Mande	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Marathi	65	78	(B)	-
Nepali	135	105	90	86
Panjabi	75	89	(B)	-
Patois	90	106	(B)	-
Portuguese	610	309	70	51
Romanian	30	26	(D)	(D)
Sebuano	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sinhalese	160	104	60	75
Slovak	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Spanish	22,090	1,286	7,880	846
Swahili	110	93	60	64
Swedish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tamil	80	67	(B)	-
Telugu	645	311	125	148
Turkish	150	131	(D)	(D)
Uncodable	80	78	(B)	-
African languages	856	343	153	107
Arabic	1,101	599	379	242
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	2,691	500	1,540	351
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	8,586	805	1,192	245
French Creole	478	188	32	42
German (incl Luxembourgian)	909	210	69	46
Greek	65	55	14	21
Gujarati	401	254	192	144
Hebrew	71	81	(B)	-
Hindi	533	256	191	127
Hungarian	25	29	3	4
Italian	495	150	75	55
Japanese	359	155	130	91
Korean	777	337	239	128
Laotian	189	119	82	75
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	11	22	11	22
Other and unspecified languages	106	74	(B)	-
Other Asian languages	1,168	374	355	234
Other Indic languages	624	229	251	150
Other Indo-European languages	50	37	7	12
Other Native North American languages	42	38	26	31
Other Pacific Island languages	80	69	(B)	-
Other Slavic languages	81	60	24	39
Other West Germanic languages	123	136	8	12
Persian	356	180	100	92
Polish	210	150	(B)	-
Population 5 years and over	753,965	192	15,897	1,192
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	610	309	69	51
Russian	397	306	50	50
Scandinavian languages	93	62	(B)	-
Serbo-Croatian languages	49	46	9	14
Tagalog	793	313	171	114
Thai	93	60	33	28
Urdu	354	193	70	78
Vietnamese	4,682	639	2,544	347
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	2,201	685	561	251
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	10,843	675	5,105	551
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	14,414	1,109	2,353	346
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	22,091	1,286	7,878	846
Speak a language other than English at home	49,549	1,911	15,897	1,192
Speak only English at home	704,416	1,922	(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.