Languages spoken in Lansing-East Lansing, 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 Lansing-East Lansing [MI]

Table showing languages spoken in Lansing-East Lansing, 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	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Albanian	135	107	(D)	(D)
American Indian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Amharic	220	118	90	69
Azerbaijani	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bantu	260	203	175	188
Bengali	275	135	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	55	75	(B)	-
Burmese	230	185	225	184
Cantonese	145	92	85	75
Chamorro	20	22	(D)	(D)
Cherokee	30	39	(B)	-
Chinese	3,785	513	2,860	404
Choctaw	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Croatian	90	65	(D)	(D)
Cushite	210	170	90	87
Czech	40	27	(D)	(D)
Danish	20	25	(B)	-
Dutch	90	46	(D)	(D)
Finnish	65	42	(D)	(D)
Formosan	75	62	40	44
French	1,370	226	300	149
German	1,580	234	240	77
India nec3	80	91	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	75	55	35	32
Irish Gaelic	40	37	(B)	-
Kannada	200	147	40	46
Karen	135	137	115	132
Kazakh	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	160	125	50	69
Kurdish	70	91	(D)	(D)
Latvian	110	96	45	42
Lithuanian	85	95	(B)	-
Macedonian	20	21	(B)	-
Malay	35	32	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	25	32	(B)	-
Mandarin	770	239	480	208
Mande	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Marathi	70	67	(D)	(D)
Mayan languages	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nepali	945	433	770	379
Nilo-Hamitic	180	213	180	213
Norwegian	30	28	(D)	(D)
Ojibwa	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Ottawa	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	325	214	185	141
Patois	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pennsylvania Dutch	85	53	65	47
Pidgin	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Portuguese	75	64	(D)	(D)
Romanian	85	63	(D)	(D)
Samoan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Serbian	65	50	(B)	-
Serbocroatian	245	188	140	117
Sinhalese	65	62	35	40
Slovak	40	34	30	30
Slovene	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Spanish	14,415	895	4,470	535
Sudanic	120	136	110	133
Swahili	600	439	480	421
Swedish	55	42	(B)	-
Syriac	265	283	230	277
Tamil	505	242	(D)	(D)
Telugu	380	203	135	123
Turkish	275	138	145	113
Ukrainian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Uncodable	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Welsh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	1,765	614	1,185	561
Arabic	2,234	503	955	303
Armenian	10	16	(B)	-
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	4,773	507	3,460	427
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	1,383	228	302	149
French Creole	415	189	91	71
German (incl Luxembourgian)	1,579	234	240	77
Greek	403	221	112	159
Gujarati	187	116	43	51
Hebrew	132	107	33	33
Hindi	685	192	90	59
Hmong	775	281	303	149
Hungarian	42	37	8	14
Italian	394	179	98	72
Japanese	326	114	115	78
Korean	1,867	424	1,374	362
Laotian	31	46	18	44
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	13	22	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	355	288	231	278
Other Asian languages	1,778	471	695	260
Other Indic languages	1,759	501	1,022	395
Other Indo-European languages	539	212	113	71
Other Native North American languages	94	56	37	52
Other Pacific Island languages	142	67	54	39
Other Slavic languages	171	86	42	33
Other West Germanic languages	189	71	80	52
Persian	254	125	53	45
Polish	405	159	67	55
Population 5 years and over	439,040	103	17,002	1,088
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	76	64	10	17
Russian	698	295	296	163
Scandinavian languages	107	59	13	16
Serbo-Croatian languages	396	216	157	122
Tagalog	409	176	124	83
Thai	105	60	52	37
Urdu	620	228	174	126
Vietnamese	1,370	364	887	282
Yiddish	2	8	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	4,622	769	2,449	628
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	11,589	726	7,082	613
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	10,272	868	3,003	534
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	14,416	895	4,468	535
Speak a language other than English at home	40,899	1,216	17,002	1,088
Speak only English at home	398,141	1,225	(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.