Languages spoken in Grand Rapids-Wyoming, 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 Grand Rapids-Wyoming [MI]

Table showing languages spoken in Grand Rapids-Wyoming, 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
Afrikaans	100	75	(B)	-
Albanian	210	170	25	33
American Indian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Amharic	205	113	95	64
Bantu	325	233	125	106
Bengali	260	209	85	85
Berber	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Burmese	150	132	145	132
Cajun	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cantonese	195	153	70	64
Caucasian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chamorro	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	1,705	439	630	244
Choctaw	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Croatian	90	82	45	51
Cushite	580	379	235	192
Czech	45	31	(D)	(D)
Danish	35	31	(B)	-
Dutch	1,915	351	310	112
Efik	30	43	(D)	(D)
Finnish	140	82	(D)	(D)
Formosan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
French	1,615	317	290	141
Frisian	40	38	(B)	-
German	2,460	347	410	147
Indonesian	100	83	30	31
Irish Gaelic	40	59	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	45	45	(D)	(D)
Kachin	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Kannada	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Karen	365	353	365	353
Krio	30	38	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	135	99	(B)	-
Latvian	325	133	40	42
Lithuanian	65	47	(D)	(D)
Macedonian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malay	45	42	(B)	-
Malayalam	95	111	(D)	(D)
Mandarin	310	152	130	85
Mande	40	72	(D)	(D)
Marathi	85	65	(D)	(D)
Mayan languages	95	83	70	51
Mongolian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Nepali	760	340	590	268
Norwegian	90	63	10	12
Ojibwa	175	123	(D)	(D)
Ottawa	25	26	(B)	-
Panjabi	235	156	80	84
Pennsylvania Dutch	250	121	120	88
Pidgin	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Portuguese	235	113	35	27
Rajasthani	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Romanian	270	162	95	84
Serbian	70	78	50	75
Serbocroatian	2,665	582	1,235	329
Sinhalese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Slovak	220	279	(D)	(D)
Slovene	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Spanish	57,050	1,707	25,185	1,201
Sudanic	145	119	(D)	(D)
Swahili	350	200	165	133
Swedish	105	83	(B)	-
Syriac	100	104	35	63
Tamil	120	81	30	41
Telugu	280	190	40	39
Turkish	25	21	(B)	-
Uighur	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ukrainian	65	49	(D)	(D)
Uncodable	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	1,824	569	701	313
Arabic	1,163	376	456	186
Armenian	16	24	(B)	-
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	2,231	482	841	274
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	1,625	317	292	141
French Creole	330	222	127	100
German (incl Luxembourgian)	2,458	347	412	147
Greek	188	105	83	78
Gujarati	122	84	50	44
Hebrew	83	70	19	19
Hindi	977	346	176	99
Hmong	511	315	90	77
Hungarian	123	81	57	59
Italian	503	147	123	65
Japanese	400	141	51	36
Korean	1,126	272	532	191
Laotian	1,032	338	548	200
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	914	318	454	170
Navajo	16	24	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	369	158	116	76
Other Asian languages	1,096	458	628	396
Other Indic languages	1,358	417	764	292
Other Indo-European languages	988	289	200	105
Other Native North American languages	229	142	26	29
Other Pacific Island languages	163	95	30	31
Other Slavic languages	402	291	64	47
Other West Germanic languages	2,302	390	430	142
Persian	315	165	129	85
Polish	794	223	186	100
Population 5 years and over	930,462	82	38,328	1,442
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	234	113	33	27
Russian	901	253	250	105
Scandinavian languages	229	104	10	12
Serbo-Croatian languages	2,825	580	1,324	325
Tagalog	632	174	173	88
Thai	126	105	74	56
Urdu	320	189	35	37
Vietnamese	5,679	649	3,657	453
Yiddish	21	34	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	3,807	728	1,375	384
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	13,910	793	7,078	629
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	16,908	1,187	4,688	513
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	57,048	1,707	25,187	1,201
Speak a language other than English at home	91,673	2,261	38,328	1,442
Speak only English at home	838,789	2,275	(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.