Languages spoken in Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX


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 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land [TX]

Table showing languages spoken in Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX






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
    African780256355211
    Afrikaans7152676064
    Alabama6080(B)-
    Albanian460284190152
    American Indian(D)(D)(B)-
    Amharic4,5451,1672,235787
    Arawakian1601606079
    Assamese(D)(D)(B)-
    Azerbaijani11512290103
    Aztecan190212145149
    Bantu1,060511175105
    Bengali4,9851,0421,535458
    Berber(D)(D)(B)-
    Bikol(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Bisayan500275160110
    Bulgarian735331210157
    Burmese1,230528940462
    Cajun420151(D)(D)
    Cantonese5,9259763,075579
    Catalonian(D)(D)(B)-
    Caucasian(D)(D)(B)-
    Chadic3453075558
    Cham(D)(D)(B)-
    Chamorro595358(D)(D)
    Cherokee5055(B)-
    Chinese46,5852,19524,2001,449
    Choctaw(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Croatian4202577575
    Cushite1,095721555433
    Czech1,44029616573
    Dakota(D)(D)(B)-
    Danish545301180167
    Dutch2,360584160104
    Efik745445(D)(D)
    Estonian9098(B)-
    Fijian(D)(D)(B)-
    Finnish2101362530
    Foothill North Yokuts(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Formosan2,4654541,415328
    French21,0951,4564,200706
    Fulani170115(D)(D)
    German12,7951,1761,455298
    Gondi(D)(D)(B)-
    Gullah1523(B)-
    Hawaiian10572(B)-
    Ilocano165822525
    India nec32,515582750288
    Indonesian1,840499505236
    Irish Gaelic285179(B)-
    Iroquois(D)(D)(B)-
    Jamaican Creole8562(B)-
    Kannada1,475490210142
    Karachay90121(D)(D)
    Karen1,005489785459
    Kashmiri(D)(D)(B)-
    Kazakh1051175063
    Kickapoo(D)(D)(B)-
    Kirghiz(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Krio4152307568
    Kru, Ibo, Yoruba18,4952,0623,120557
    Kuchin(D)(D)(B)-
    Kurdish1401093039
    Latvian3527(D)(D)
    Lithuanian11583(D)(D)
    Luxembourgian(D)(D)(B)-
    Macedonian(D)(D)(B)-
    Malay725354330245
    Malayalam11,8101,4933,040609
    Mandarin9,6651,2053,525608
    Mande18514795112
    Marathi2,265584320203
    Marshallese105101(D)(D)
    Mayan languages110177110177
    Mbum (and related)(D)(D)(B)-
    Melanesian(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Micronesian(D)(D)(B)-
    Mongolian(D)(D)(B)-
    Muskogee(D)(D)(B)-
    Nepali3,3056651,790429
    Nilo-Hamitic(D)(D)(B)-
    Nilotic4848
    Norwegian1,435410215124
    Oriya(D)(D)(B)-
    Oto - Manguen2541(D)(D)
    Pakistan nec3860495245288
    Palau6065(B)-
    Pampangan(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Pangasinan(D)(D)(B)-
    Panjabi2,790661930312
    Papia Mentae6057(D)(D)
    Pashto445350200185
    Patois3251785042
    Pidgin115132110131
    Pima(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Ponapean(D)(D)(B)-
    Portuguese7,4659402,020427
    Quechua80122(D)(D)
    Rajasthani1036419
    Romanian2,160528815251
    Romany(D)(D)(B)-
    Samoan10574(B)-
    Sebuano610474325251
    Serbian5152209067
    Serbocroatian1,300463395165
    Sindhi450219140120
    Sinhalese1,165449355282
    Slovak6050(B)-
    Slovene(D)(D)(B)-
    Spanish1,617,3207,242769,5358,045
    Sudanic21024095149
    Swahili2,285612600276
    Swedish590206(B)-
    Syriac9581(D)(D)
    Tamil4,6908501,065402
    Telugu6,1309631,235347
    Tongan240260(B)-
    Trukese(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Turkish3,170615940245
    Uighur105113(D)(D)
    Ukrainian40518015099
    Uncodable3534(B)-
    Welsh3024(B)-
    Wu(D)(D)(D)(D)
    African languages29,9982,7927,3201,087
    Arabic22,0742,0347,8521,050
    Armenian405214206142
    Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)64,6502,68932,2271,776
    French (incl Patois, Cajun)21,8391,4914,259709
    French Creole2,712468617220
    German (incl Luxembourgian)12,8091,1781,455298
    Greek2,950486651162
    Gujarati13,2101,7204,146852
    Hebrew1,781486312145
    Hindi24,5692,2085,627880
    Hungarian1,111368362160
    Italian3,325490841217
    Japanese4,0905431,897374
    Korean11,6031,3365,747713
    Laotian1,953616894431
    Mon-Khmer, Cambodian4,3288792,460575
    Navajo47(B)-
    Other and unspecified languages1,017387384243
    Other Asian languages29,9872,2478,4061,130
    Other Indic languages18,5341,7966,073850
    Other Indo-European languages4,3217501,436409
    Other Native North American languages2671074540
    Other Pacific Island languages5,3099831,584506
    Other Slavic languages2,710500522197
    Other West Germanic languages3,078639219120
    Persian9,3271,4233,816622
    Polish2,565487579178
    Population 5 years and over5,589,803210947,9438,921
    Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)7,5279442,025428
    Russian7,4161,2242,550528
    Scandinavian languages2,567588395214
    Serbo-Croatian languages2,233538562202
    Tagalog31,3862,3186,883809
    Thai2,8046991,477460
    Urdu31,0692,7289,3681,249
    Vietnamese92,2563,64055,2032,632
    Yiddish5041814
    ALL OTHER LANGUAGES56,2523,63516,2751,664
    ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES248,3664,317116,7782,906
    OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES173,2165,28945,3552,316
    SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE1,617,3197,242769,5358,045
    Speak a language other than English at home2,095,1538,256947,9438,921
    Speak only English at home3,494,6508,253(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

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