Languages spoken in Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA

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 Harrisburg-Carlisle [PA]

Table showing languages spoken in Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA

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	30	41	(B)	-
Albanian	55	85	30	44
Amharic	305	179	130	108
Bantu	10	33	4	31
Bengali	335	220	60	54
Bisayan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bulgarian	50	47	(B)	-
Burmese	25	40	(D)	(D)
Cantonese	85	81	(D)	(D)
Caucasian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Chadic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Cham	75	120	(D)	(D)
Chinese	1,565	360	755	205
Croatian	190	128	60	68
Cushite	220	181	170	143
Czech	95	76	(D)	(D)
Dakota	25	44	(B)	-
Danish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	345	93	85	44
Estonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	60	63	(D)	(D)
French	1,455	324	430	165
German	2,695	323	495	155
India nec3	140	136	140	136
Indonesian	175	126	45	42
Irish Gaelic	40	43	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	65	78	(D)	(D)
Kannada	130	87	45	51
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	150	99	(D)	(D)
Kuchin	30	58	(D)	(D)
Latvian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Lithuanian	30	29	(B)	-
Malay	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	225	142	40	40
Mandarin	175	122	90	93
Mande	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Marathi	125	134	(B)	-
Nepali	600	329	510	321
Nilo-Saharan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Nilotic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Norwegian	30	36	(B)	-
Oriya	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Oto - Manguen	20	25	20	25
Panjabi	280	275	130	110
Pashto	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Patois	25	29	(B)	-
Pennsylvania Dutch	3,070	475	825	231
Portuguese	390	191	70	52
Romanian	35	49	(B)	-
Serbian	170	98	40	38
Serbocroatian	1,005	370	420	172
Sindhi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Slovak	90	121	(B)	-
Slovene	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Spanish	16,420	879	6,410	638
Swahili	140	65	75	43
Swedish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Syriac	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Tamil	450	193	120	89
Telugu	645	235	90	75
Turkish	40	41	(B)	-
Uighur	125	150	110	129
Ukrainian	145	139	70	90
African languages	973	289	509	192
Arabic	1,978	662	851	308
Armenian	20	33	(B)	-
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	1,883	410	891	244
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	1,480	324	431	165
French Creole	121	92	41	59
German (incl Luxembourgian)	2,694	323	494	155
Greek	752	241	236	98
Gujarati	1,302	413	301	125
Hebrew	116	73	10	17
Hindi	1,118	373	117	74
Hmong	12	20	(B)	-
Hungarian	133	70	17	25
Italian	967	199	151	62
Japanese	327	135	81	58
Korean	1,115	401	461	185
Laotian	24	25	5	6
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	101	85	69	70
Other and unspecified languages	92	70	55	57
Other Asian languages	1,643	314	414	158
Other Indic languages	1,505	459	852	363
Other Indo-European languages	256	140	50	56
Other Native North American languages	58	73	12	21
Other Pacific Island languages	282	176	66	51
Other Slavic languages	402	214	81	93
Other West Germanic languages	3,439	484	911	243
Persian	142	134	72	85
Polish	331	111	61	42
Population 5 years and over	520,129	36	16,228	965
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	392	191	72	52
Russian	973	310	396	168
Scandinavian languages	54	39	(B)	-
Serbo-Croatian languages	1,370	410	517	192
Tagalog	972	320	208	113
Thai	95	69	51	45
Urdu	255	128	54	55
Vietnamese	2,092	408	1,272	294
Yiddish	27	26	9	14
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	3,350	702	1,454	360
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	8,546	713	3,518	447
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	17,600	1,117	4,846	583
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	16,418	879	6,410	638
Speak a language other than English at home	45,914	1,460	16,228	965
Speak only English at home	474,215	1,466	(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.