Languages spoken in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC


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 Durham-Chapel Hill [NC]

Table showing languages spoken in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC






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
  • Armenian
  • Persian
  • Hindi
  • Gujarati
  • Urdu
  • Other Indic languages
  • Other Indo-European languages

    • ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES
  • Chinese (incl. Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages)
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
  • Hmong
  • Thai
  • Laotian
  • Vietnamese
  • Other Asian languages
  • Tagalog
  • Other Pacific Island languages

    • ALL OTHER LANGUAGES
  • Navajo
  • Other Native North American languages
  • Hungarian
  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • African languages
  • Other and unspecified languages



    • BY STATE
    BY COUNTY
    BY CITY
    LanguageNumber of speakersMargin of ErrorSpeak English less than "Very Well"Margin of Error
    Afrikaans120107(B)-
    Albanian(D)(D)(B)-
    Amharic39519911598
    Bantu400253(D)(D)
    Bengali455233125146
    Bisayan(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Bulgarian11576(D)(D)
    Burmese265228130130
    Cantonese175877070
    Catalonian(D)(D)(B)-
    Caucasian(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Chamorro(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Cherokee5058(B)-
    Chinese5,0306392,120418
    Croatian4550(B)-
    Cushite(D)(D)(B)-
    Czech245160(B)-
    Danish(D)(D)(B)-
    Dutch370309(B)-
    Finnish(D)(D)(B)-
    Formosan4543(B)-
    French2,900494530156
    German1,82534415080
    Gondi(D)(D)(B)-
    India nec33541(D)(D)
    Indonesian8071(D)(D)
    Irish Gaelic(D)(D)(B)-
    Jamaican Creole8572(D)(D)
    Kannada8578(D)(D)
    Karen1,030551650379
    Krio(D)(D)(B)-
    Kru, Ibo, Yoruba4852157061
    Kurdish(D)(D)(B)-
    Lithuanian(D)(D)(B)-
    Malayalam135108(D)(D)
    Mandarin895209230121
    Mande(D)(D)(B)-
    Marathi5042(B)-
    Mayan languages(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Micmac(D)(D)(B)-
    Micronesian(D)(D)(B)-
    Nepali(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Nilotic(D)(D)(B)-
    Norwegian(D)(D)(B)-
    Oriya6589(B)-
    Panjabi175171(D)(D)
    Pashto(D)(D)(B)-
    Patois(D)(D)(B)-
    Pennsylvania Dutch(D)(D)(B)-
    Polynesian(D)(D)(B)-
    Portuguese52525413595
    Romanian9068(D)(D)
    Sebuano(D)(D)(B)-
    Serbian(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Serbocroatian(D)(D)(B)-
    Slovak2533(B)-
    Spanish49,9301,10227,9501,268
    Sudanic(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Swahili405261(D)(D)
    Swedish190121(D)(D)
    Tamil3902159082
    Telugu66034112598
    Tibetan(D)(D)(B)-
    Tupi-Guarani(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Turkish265136(D)(D)
    Uighur(D)(D)(B)-
    Ukrainian(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Uncodable2524(D)(D)
    Welsh(D)(D)(B)-
    African languages1,978584394225
    Arabic1,354391350195
    Armenian6469913
    Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)6,1476872,420446
    French (incl Patois, Cajun)2,907495528156
    French Creole2741632336
    German (incl Luxembourgian)1,82534414880
    Greek2481436768
    Gujarati351132136101
    Hebrew194962233
    Hindi6982344151
    Hmong5143(B)-
    Hungarian4147(B)-
    Italian9083928774
    Japanese33514512076
    Korean2,295446995332
    Laotian1081012843
    Mon-Khmer, Cambodian81898189
    Navajo715715
    Other and unspecified languages108715858
    Other Asian languages2,8737131,017418
    Other Indic languages874337203162
    Other Indo-European languages3421445763
    Other Native North American languages7771(B)-
    Other Pacific Island languages2311608485
    Other Slavic languages4031731921
    Other West Germanic languages507332(B)-
    Persian560242249171
    Polish3071532429
    Population 5 years and over483,76314736,4691,504
    Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)52725413495
    Russian1,13538617597
    Scandinavian languages2341281625
    Serbo-Croatian languages90641423
    Tagalog1,186354153103
    Thai219135100106
    Urdu465255188213
    Vietnamese1,081370571289
    Yiddish1223(B)-
    ALL OTHER LANGUAGES3,759701831299
    ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES14,6077855,569550
    OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES12,7311,2962,118490
    SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE49,9311,10227,9511,268
    Speak a language other than English at home81,0281,74936,4691,504
    Speak only English at home402,7351,749(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.


    Surnames by race:  Asian   |  Black   |  Hispanic   |  Native American   |  Two or More Races   |  White

    Surnames Alphabetical:  A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z

    Most Common Male Names:  1-300  |   301-600  |   601-900  |   901+  |   Alphabetical list

    Most Common Female Names:  1-1000 1001-2000  |   2001-3000  |   3001+  |   Alphabetical list

    Popular Baby Names in the U.S. (Historic)  Boys: 1-250  |  251-500  |  501-750  |  751-1000        Girls: 1-250  |  251-500  |  501-750  |  751-1000

    Ancestry in the United States:  Ancestry by city  |   Mexican  |   German  |   Irish  |   English  |   African American  |   More



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