Languages spoken in Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, 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 Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls [NY]

Table showing languages spoken in Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, 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)	-
Albanian	465	324	90	90
American Indian	65	84	(D)	(D)
Amharic	460	247	245	161
Bantu	375	231	265	190
Bengali	1,205	472	640	228
Bielorussian	30	34	30	34
Bisayan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	165	100	65	50
Burmese	1,060	567	905	482
Cantonese	805	299	220	162
Carolinian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Chadic	85	109	85	109
Chamorro	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chibchan	120	174	100	143
Chinese	4,000	582	1,765	351
Croatian	265	169	35	36
Cushite	835	386	345	154
Czech	65	50	30	34
Danish	95	111	(D)	(D)
Dutch	140	82	(D)	(D)
Efik	35	57	(B)	-
Estonian	60	47	(D)	(D)
Fijian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	60	60	(D)	(D)
Formosan	245	150	180	134
French	4,455	461	865	212
Fulani	65	65	65	65
German	3,195	331	610	160
Hakka	30	46	30	46
India nec3	35	41	(B)	-
Indonesian	125	117	55	58
Irish Gaelic	75	50	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	90	77	(B)	-
Kannada	90	78	(B)	-
Karen	1,330	635	1,310	630
Kashmiri	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Keres	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Kiowa	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	495	198	115	89
Kurdish	180	176	95	95
Latvian	85	67	(D)	(D)
Lithuanian	75	58	(B)	-
Macedonian	200	103	70	76
Malay	115	172	115	172
Malayalam	220	170	80	114
Mandarin	1,170	296	505	228
Mande	105	81	(D)	(D)
Marathi	65	48	(B)	-
Mohawk	190	165	(D)	(D)
Mongolian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nepali	730	346	430	230
Nilo-Hamitic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Norwegian	55	43	(D)	(D)
Oneida	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Oriya	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Paiute	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pakistan nec3	130	109	70	57
Pampangan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	780	338	295	177
Pashto	235	191	170	154
Patois	45	37	(D)	(D)
Pennsylvania Dutch	30	29	(B)	-
Portuguese	720	314	110	71
Romanian	190	118	70	52
Samoan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Sebuano	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Seneca	170	111	(D)	(D)
Serbian	545	308	240	185
Serbocroatian	310	198	130	108
Sinhalese	75	66	(D)	(D)
Slovak	105	88	(D)	(D)
Slovene	80	82	80	82
Spanish	30,790	1,395	8,235	678
Sudanic	140	195	55	64
Swahili	645	426	325	288
Swedish	75	44	(D)	(D)
Syriac	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Tamil	705	276	150	97
Telugu	470	194	105	99
Tibetan	65	63	(D)	(D)
Tongan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tupi-Guarani	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Turkish	445	233	205	111
Tuscarora	85	75	10	10
Ukrainian	1,020	254	480	163
Welsh	35	33	(D)	(D)
African languages	3,301	678	1,527	462
Arabic	5,608	990	2,594	603
Armenian	227	127	66	54
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	6,249	658	2,699	463
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	4,500	465	875	215
French Creole	439	254	176	122
German (incl Luxembourgian)	3,194	331	608	160
Greek	892	295	121	61
Gujarati	391	199	173	124
Hebrew	329	145	14	22
Hindi	1,861	492	217	116
Hungarian	558	178	178	95
Italian	5,970	606	1,453	213
Japanese	615	226	227	148
Korean	1,549	368	721	205
Laotian	183	107	69	57
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	79	57	34	38
Other and unspecified languages	296	193	172	157
Other Asian languages	4,396	941	2,768	835
Other Indic languages	3,058	662	1,461	357
Other Indo-European languages	1,424	437	449	197
Other Native North American languages	600	230	169	115
Other Pacific Island languages	439	234	239	191
Other Slavic languages	1,662	276	757	204
Other West Germanic languages	171	84	9	16
Persian	542	295	202	177
Polish	7,951	713	1,886	324
Population 5 years and over	1,074,379	6	32,200	1,476
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	722	314	112	71
Russian	3,173	651	1,700	508
Scandinavian languages	227	137	23	24
Serbo-Croatian languages	1,119	415	410	222
Tagalog	445	164	114	58
Thai	302	212	232	227
Urdu	1,427	459	516	240
Vietnamese	1,366	412	842	267
Yiddish	354	235	154	155
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	10,692	1,273	4,654	761
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	15,623	968	7,945	884
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	39,304	1,877	11,368	1,005
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	30,791	1,395	8,233	678
Speak a language other than English at home	96,410	2,604	32,200	1,476
Speak only English at home	977,969	2,605	(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.