Languages spoken in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn [MI]

Table showing languages spoken in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

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	85	73	70	68
Afrikaans	60	43	(D)	(D)
Albanian	18,965	1,891	8,640	994
Algonquian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
American Indian	190	156	(D)	(D)
Amharic	205	102	50	49
Apache	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Assamese	75	70	(D)	(D)
Azerbaijani	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bantu	1,140	558	465	403
Bengali	12,110	1,235	6,515	863
Bisayan	405	266	190	165
Bulgarian	630	241	280	95
Burmese	60	62	35	35
Cantonese	1,190	316	555	186
Caucasian	65	85	(D)	(D)
Chamorro	35	32	(B)	-
Cherokee	60	46	(D)	(D)
Chinese	14,790	1,014	6,735	647
Choctaw	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Croatian	670	194	190	61
Cushite	120	106	60	91
Czech	475	177	145	92
Danish	105	74	(B)	-
Dravidian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	1,170	297	280	114
Efik	55	51	(D)	(D)
Estonian	45	35	(D)	(D)
Finnish	520	158	80	45
Formosan	305	126	235	114
French	12,905	999	2,280	349
Fulani	620	252	205	128
German	15,425	1,042	2,560	315
Gondi	80	88	(B)	-
Hawaiian	90	90	(D)	(D)
Icelandic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ilocano	190	113	90	81
India nec3	920	322	490	226
Indonesian	165	101	60	79
Irish Gaelic	165	73	(D)	(D)
Jamaican Creole	45	44	(B)	-
Kannada	1,830	448	185	95
Kashmiri	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kirghiz	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	3,415	620	835	273
Kurdish	360	217	185	122
Latvian	235	100	50	39
Lithuanian	920	221	200	83
Macedonian	5,305	824	1,800	375
Malay	110	80	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	3,345	590	930	286
Mandarin	1,965	417	870	301
Mande	420	218	150	141
Marathi	1,785	461	350	168
Menomini	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Micronesian	50	58	(D)	(D)
Mongolian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Mortlockese	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Munda	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Nepali	445	217	235	138
Norwegian	110	53	40	35
Nubian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ojibwa	220	135	(D)	(D)
Oriya	285	163	40	47
Ottawa	45	32	(D)	(D)
Pachuco	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pakistan nec3	30	48	(D)	(D)
Palau	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pampangan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Panjabi	3,765	650	1,100	262
Pashto	30	43	(D)	(D)
Patois	345	165	115	142
Pennsylvania Dutch	80	93	(D)	(D)
Pidgin	70	88	45	51
Ponapean	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Portuguese	1,875	358	465	166
Potawatomi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Romanian	9,240	940	3,485	471
Romany	145	115	(D)	(D)
Samoan	85	76	(D)	(D)
Scottic Gaelic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sebuano	105	66	55	55
Serbian	2,400	446	710	212
Serbocroatian	5,605	949	3,010	481
Sindhi	75	78	(B)	-
Sinhalese	265	159	105	98
Slovak	820	260	75	58
Slovene	40	41	(D)	(D)
Spanish	111,650	2,311	38,720	1,487
Sudanic	165	181	(B)	-
Swahili	630	202	95	63
Swedish	410	137	(D)	(D)
Syriac	23,175	1,920	11,195	1,164
Tamil	4,700	871	850	294
Telugu	6,480	941	1,090	267
Tongan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Trukese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Turkish	490	186	170	127
Ukrainian	3,810	568	2,015	415
Uncodable	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Welsh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Wu	45	33	(D)	(D)
Yupik	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	6,879	968	1,943	585
Arabic	97,641	2,910	41,508	1,873
Armenian	1,999	395	492	156
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	18,297	1,059	8,413	701
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	13,246	1,035	2,392	381
French Creole	476	184	65	50
German (incl Luxembourgian)	15,423	1,042	2,559	315
Greek	5,638	691	1,457	280
Gujarati	7,633	870	2,539	420
Hebrew	1,788	344	299	107
Hindi	11,078	1,117	2,496	416
Hmong	2,966	684	1,064	297
Hungarian	1,488	307	367	123
Italian	16,314	960	5,056	454
Japanese	7,447	838	4,094	689
Korean	6,628	833	3,382	465
Laotian	477	205	253	133
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	316	129	117	68
Navajo	13	17	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	23,828	1,936	11,327	1,167
Other Asian languages	17,115	1,504	3,305	540
Other Indic languages	19,935	1,461	8,898	951
Other Indo-European languages	30,046	2,283	12,621	1,175
Other Native North American languages	618	231	39	31
Other Pacific Island languages	1,344	316	472	211
Other Slavic languages	11,083	1,003	4,340	470
Other West Germanic languages	1,309	313	308	130
Persian	1,401	335	443	173
Polish	17,451	1,277	5,487	567
Population 5 years and over	4,039,244	104	182,493	3,319
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	1,875	358	466	166
Russian	7,303	746	3,751	410
Scandinavian languages	636	172	49	38
Serbo-Croatian languages	8,671	1,074	3,911	528
Tagalog	11,719	996	3,003	472
Thai	727	247	372	129
Urdu	8,662	969	2,649	508
Vietnamese	6,198	969	3,776	652
Yiddish	514	121	59	39
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	132,255	3,788	55,483	2,133
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	73,234	1,843	28,251	1,465
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	180,693	3,680	60,038	1,669
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	111,666	2,310	38,721	1,487
Speak a language other than English at home	497,848	5,512	182,493	3,319
Speak only English at home	3,541,396	5,514	(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.