Languages spoken in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington [MN-WI]

Table showing languages spoken in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-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	105	98	100	98
Afrikaans	200	100	(D)	(D)
Albanian	220	138	35	39
American Indian	295	190	(D)	(D)
Amharic	8,725	964	3,985	472
Apache	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Assamese	65	68	(B)	-
Azerbaijani	30	34	(D)	(D)
Bantu	1,650	510	210	117
Bengali	1,355	361	280	143
Berber	45	55	(D)	(D)
Bielorussian	65	63	55	58
Bikol	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bisayan	165	101	70	56
Bulgarian	330	129	95	66
Burmese	900	375	725	334
Cajun	55	66	(B)	-
Cantonese	1,375	355	540	195
Catalonian	70	51	(B)	-
Caucasian	45	50	30	34
Chadic	215	121	70	78
Chamorro	80	62	(B)	-
Cherokee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cheyenne	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	14,335	1,147	6,265	693
Croatian	155	85	35	44
Cushite	32,410	2,006	15,360	1,068
Czech	745	163	75	39
Dakota	315	126	(D)	(D)
Danish	510	155	70	36
Diegueno	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	760	176	75	38
Efik	205	165	55	67
Estonian	70	45	25	25
Fijian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Finnish	1,240	280	270	121
Formosan	195	95	35	31
French	11,945	895	2,160	334
French Cree	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Fulani	200	123	55	42
German	13,755	798	2,020	260
Hawaiian	105	113	(B)	-
Icelandic	85	59	(B)	-
Ilocano	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
India nec3	505	296	215	203
Indonesian	305	142	170	111
Inupik	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Irish Gaelic	75	62	(D)	(D)
Jamaican Creole	70	42	(B)	-
Kannada	665	279	85	71
Karen	4,390	886	3,945	822
Kazakh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Krio	185	116	60	67
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	5,955	777	1,375	307
Kuchin	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kurdish	60	76	(D)	(D)
Latvian	750	256	100	72
Lithuanian	65	45	(D)	(D)
Macedonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malagasy	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malay	125	81	50	61
Malayalam	1,285	415	150	96
Mandarin	2,290	440	805	274
Mande	1,455	470	500	208
Marathi	700	223	65	63
Mayan languages	70	68	65	68
Melanesian	40	66	(D)	(D)
Menomini	4	6	(B)	-
Mokilese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Muskogee	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Nepali	1,370	375	840	335
Nilo-Hamitic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nilotic	225	143	(D)	(D)
Norwegian	1,920	231	205	84
Ojibwa	1,365	271	105	77
Oriya	235	165	(D)	(D)
Palau	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pampangan	80	105	(D)	(D)
Panjabi	720	399	280	229
Pashto	115	100	75	63
Patois	100	65	(D)	(D)
Pennsylvania Dutch	210	115	35	31
Pidgin	75	58	(D)	(D)
Portuguese	1,755	320	200	86
Quechua	75	113	70	112
Romanian	1,240	569	385	213
Samoan	155	82	65	63
Scottic Gaelic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sebuano	150	91	45	47
Serbian	350	167	110	80
Serbocroatian	2,440	593	1,070	324
Sindhi	50	53	(D)	(D)
Sinhalese	500	178	50	45
Slovak	265	123	(D)	(D)
Slovene	80	86	(D)	(D)
Spanish	138,800	2,450	64,070	2,060
Sudanic	230	166	80	70
Swahili	3,875	745	880	264
Swedish	1,675	317	170	66
Syriac	50	41	(D)	(D)
Tamil	3,295	645	835	368
Telugu	4,850	872	835	326
Tibetan	1,250	411	670	263
Tongan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Turkish	545	194	160	80
Uighur	55	92	30	46
Ukrainian	1,620	428	770	238
Uncodable	75	48	(B)	-
Welsh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Yapese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	55,330	2,307	22,719	1,217
Arabic	7,924	1,159	2,325	503
Armenian	28	23	21	26
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	18,197	1,291	7,638	779
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	12,105	894	2,176	333
French Creole	951	381	273	159
German (incl Luxembourgian)	13,754	798	2,019	260
Greek	901	239	70	41
Gujarati	1,627	525	414	216
Hebrew	1,046	255	113	56
Hindi	6,407	891	1,025	284
Hmong	52,519	2,239	23,860	1,451
Hungarian	330	131	28	43
Italian	2,040	343	426	128
Japanese	2,840	434	992	260
Korean	4,681	864	2,108	382
Laotian	7,630	954	3,793	585
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	4,597	940	2,501	521
Navajo	76	112	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	1,621	309	469	176
Other Asian languages	17,290	1,760	7,452	1,132
Other Indic languages	5,502	769	1,769	502
Other Indo-European languages	2,949	681	703	253
Other Native North American languages	2,191	380	147	87
Other Pacific Island languages	1,357	329	488	179
Other Slavic languages	3,131	496	1,006	255
Other West Germanic languages	1,170	246	142	59
Persian	1,459	323	430	153
Polish	1,891	369	398	124
Population 5 years and over	3,161,147	167	171,514	3,440
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	1,754	320	202	86
Russian	12,539	1,185	6,089	660
Scandinavian languages	4,188	386	446	105
Serbo-Croatian languages	2,942	642	1,217	332
Tagalog	4,592	567	1,432	324
Thai	1,734	495	959	422
Urdu	2,417	695	550	294
Vietnamese	18,377	1,477	11,043	1,029
Yiddish	134	81	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	68,518	2,836	25,801	1,445
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	133,814	2,372	62,266	1,794
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	77,889	2,718	19,376	1,119
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	138,800	2,450	64,071	2,060
Speak a language other than English at home	419,021	4,535	171,514	3,440
Speak only English at home	2,742,126	4,529	(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.