Languages spoken in Madison, WI

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 Madison [WI]

Table showing languages spoken in Madison, WI

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
African	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Afrikaans	55	57	(B)	-
Albanian	465	268	225	147
Amharic	120	95	35	35
Bantu	65	72	(D)	(D)
Bengali	265	156	(D)	(D)
Bisayan	20	64	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	320	180	135	104
Burmese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cantonese	250	95	140	82
Catalonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chamorro	60	49	40	46
Cherokee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chibchan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	4,440	674	2,230	445
Choctaw	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Croatian	30	29	(B)	-
Crow	10	10	(B)	-
Cushite	60	105	(D)	(D)
Czech	85	54	(D)	(D)
Dakota	20	24	(B)	-
Danish	80	64	(D)	(D)
Dutch	340	166	45	36
Estonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Finnish	40	35	(B)	-
Formosan	95	73	55	56
French	2,245	421	245	102
Frisian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Fulani	120	110	85	105
German	3,425	375	560	126
India nec3	25	39	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	100	70	70	45
Irish Gaelic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kannada	90	76	(D)	(D)
Krio	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	555	259	165	111
Kurdish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Latvian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Lithuanian	30	27	20	24
Macedonian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malagasy	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malay	110	79	85	67
Malayalam	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Mandarin	685	283	325	190
Mande	215	172	30	41
Marathi	45	41	(B)	-
Mongolian	35	50	(D)	(D)
Nepali	270	227	230	221
Norwegian	260	93	85	53
Ojibwa	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Oneida	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Oriya	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	310	180	90	79
Pennsylvania Dutch	325	183	115	47
Pidgin	155	240	(B)	-
Portuguese	445	197	95	56
Potawatomi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Romanian	120	91	(D)	(D)
Samoan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sebuano	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Serbian	90	76	(D)	(D)
Serbocroatian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sinhalese	15	15	(D)	(D)
Slovak	35	32	(D)	(D)
Spanish	26,010	997	11,640	875
Swahili	80	52	(D)	(D)
Swedish	235	176	(D)	(D)
Tamil	610	258	105	81
Telugu	790	275	170	187
Tibetan	560	311	365	205
Turkish	250	132	95	80
Ukrainian	140	113	35	60
Uncodable	25	25	(B)	-
Winnebago	100	85	(B)	-
African languages	1,234	331	386	161
Arabic	702	226	161	106
Armenian	100	100	(B)	-
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	5,474	724	2,750	497
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	2,246	421	245	102
French Creole	58	73	(B)	-
German (incl Luxembourgian)	3,425	375	561	126
Greek	160	99	14	22
Gujarati	37	35	(B)	-
Hebrew	149	90	27	30
Hindi	1,104	318	248	150
Hmong	3,644	653	1,346	514
Hungarian	57	49	7	8
Italian	427	158	73	44
Japanese	503	212	216	111
Korean	1,703	442	1,056	305
Laotian	939	421	462	222
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	377	303	199	227
Other and unspecified languages	87	52	(B)	-
Other Asian languages	2,366	511	757	292
Other Indic languages	947	327	352	226
Other Indo-European languages	849	371	265	149
Other Native North American languages	193	106	18	30
Other Pacific Island languages	317	118	202	88
Other Slavic languages	586	219	191	117
Other West Germanic languages	728	227	161	59
Persian	345	121	90	48
Polish	456	173	97	72
Population 5 years and over	576,606	62	22,716	1,156
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	443	197	96	56
Russian	921	310	256	102
Scandinavian languages	574	206	98	55
Serbo-Croatian languages	146	88	17	26
Tagalog	600	182	172	99
Thai	204	104	73	46
Urdu	260	153	146	118
Vietnamese	680	297	322	189
Yiddish	70	84	14	22
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	2,422	416	599	179
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	16,807	852	7,555	731
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	13,882	971	2,924	374
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	26,008	997	11,638	875
Speak a language other than English at home	59,119	1,431	22,716	1,156
Speak only English at home	517,487	1,443	(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.