Languages spoken in Lancaster, 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 Lancaster [PA]

Table showing languages spoken in Lancaster, 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	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Amharic	520	331	425	307
Bantu	110	99	(D)	(D)
Bengali	55	40	(B)	-
Bisayan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bulgarian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Burmese	520	476	405	443
Cantonese	65	46	45	32
Chamorro	40	45	(D)	(D)
Chinese	1,185	364	750	283
Cushite	75	91	65	85
Czech	55	79	(D)	(D)
Dutch	3,190	712	990	301
Formosan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
French	1,080	315	205	119
German	5,355	707	1,435	386
India nec3	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	50	43	30	34
Kalispel	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Karen	65	106	(D)	(D)
Keres	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	70	57	(D)	(D)
Latvian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Lithuanian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malay	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Mandarin	140	117	75	69
Marathi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Muskogee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nepali	250	194	205	165
Norwegian	35	49	(B)	-
Onondaga	50	82	(B)	-
Pakistan nec3	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Palau	50	49	(D)	(D)
Panjabi	170	194	95	127
Pennsylvania Dutch	20,535	1,746	6,415	884
Portuguese	70	57	(B)	-
Romanian	290	238	150	126
Serbian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Serbocroatian	430	226	250	141
Sinhalese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Slovak	30	29	(D)	(D)
Spanish	31,810	1,422	11,325	939
Sudanic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Swahili	170	104	(D)	(D)
Swedish	110	70	(B)	-
Tamil	60	55	(D)	(D)
Turkish	65	54	45	35
Uighur	50	77	50	77
Ukrainian	475	284	330	250
Welsh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	958	355	538	311
Arabic	399	204	188	117
Armenian	43	48	(B)	-
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	1,402	349	881	277
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	1,082	315	206	119
French Creole	485	270	193	119
German (incl Luxembourgian)	5,353	707	1,434	386
Greek	463	129	211	101
Gujarati	150	215	21	31
Hebrew	57	48	(B)	-
Hindi	287	157	75	102
Hmong	587	458	250	178
Hungarian	58	55	33	37
Italian	744	214	305	116
Japanese	119	66	64	48
Korean	457	243	216	102
Laotian	135	126	72	75
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	494	238	345	175
Navajo	8	16	(B)	-
Other Asian languages	764	473	543	451
Other Indic languages	574	250	333	184
Other Indo-European languages	316	239	148	126
Other Native North American languages	99	95	21	33
Other Pacific Island languages	184	93	82	60
Other Slavic languages	569	303	360	251
Other West Germanic languages	23,750	1,830	7,417	874
Persian	48	54	(B)	-
Polish	264	137	61	47
Population 5 years and over	488,023	57	27,853	1,349
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	68	57	(B)	-
Russian	1,006	425	534	245
Scandinavian languages	146	84	(B)	-
Serbo-Croatian languages	450	227	252	141
Tagalog	354	133	46	38
Thai	11	16	11	16
Urdu	63	55	(B)	-
Vietnamese	2,282	487	1,690	371
Yiddish	15	20	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	1,579	450	780	335
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	6,789	478	4,200	491
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	35,876	1,893	11,550	1,051
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	31,811	1,422	11,323	939
Speak a language other than English at home	76,055	2,400	27,853	1,349
Speak only English at home	411,968	2,408	(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.