Languages spoken in New Orleans-Metairie, LA

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 New Orleans-Metairie [LA]

Table showing languages spoken in New Orleans-Metairie, LA

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	60	48	(D)	(D)
Amharic	295	179	115	99
Arawakian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bantu	65	39	30	31
Bengali	490	279	170	181
Berber	35	44	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	90	67	(D)	(D)
Cajun	675	177	85	49
Cantonese	105	63	(D)	(D)
Caucasian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chamorro	50	61	(B)	-
Cherokee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	3,355	569	1,735	452
Croatian	560	367	180	139
Cushite	110	126	65	66
Czech	120	95	(D)	(D)
Dakota	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Danish	80	63	(D)	(D)
Dutch	220	128	(B)	-
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	130	110	75	65
French	9,850	730	1,845	327
Fulani	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
German	1,500	214	200	79
Hawaiian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ilocano	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
India nec3	375	399	115	178
Indonesian	280	198	155	170
Irish Gaelic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Iroquois	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	55	39	(D)	(D)
Kannada	55	48	(B)	-
Kazakh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Krio	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	340	127	35	34
Ladino	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Latvian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Lithuanian	65	89	(D)	(D)
Malay	55	58	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	40	41	(D)	(D)
Mandarin	240	106	85	55
Marathi	175	171	(B)	-
Marshallese	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Mayan languages	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Micronesian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Nepali	30	28	(B)	-
Norwegian	175	111	40	36
Pakistan nec3	130	124	130	124
Panjabi	115	107	(D)	(D)
Patois	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Portuguese	1,910	548	915	408
Romanian	75	46	(D)	(D)
Romany	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Scottic Gaelic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sebuano	55	58	(D)	(D)
Serbian	30	38	(D)	(D)
Serbocroatian	95	73	35	39
Sindhi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sinhalese	30	33	20	28
Spanish	72,350	1,541	33,650	1,379
Swahili	160	80	(D)	(D)
Swedish	25	31	(B)	-
Tamil	115	64	(D)	(D)
Telugu	315	160	(D)	(D)
Turkish	235	149	130	132
Uighur	15	28	15	28
Ukrainian	30	40	(B)	-
Uncodable	70	50	(D)	(D)
Yapese	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
African languages	1,077	309	331	157
Arabic	3,280	955	710	307
Armenian	37	62	10	18
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	3,826	608	1,915	451
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	10,563	797	1,933	320
French Creole	1,175	658	146	84
German (incl Luxembourgian)	1,498	214	200	79
Greek	339	137	74	48
Gujarati	503	235	132	87
Hebrew	209	102	56	66
Hindi	679	245	55	46
Hmong	67	87	9	14
Hungarian	137	121	38	35
Italian	1,021	203	227	108
Japanese	763	225	360	153
Korean	962	343	586	248
Laotian	198	178	168	154
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	196	122	128	79
Navajo	28	48	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	125	64	34	33
Other Asian languages	784	237	190	147
Other Indic languages	1,358	520	474	278
Other Indo-European languages	265	112	93	92
Other Native North American languages	37	44	(B)	-
Other Pacific Island languages	556	253	280	205
Other Slavic languages	243	131	33	47
Other West Germanic languages	220	128	(B)	-
Persian	509	258	102	77
Polish	257	112	56	49
Population 5 years and over	1,130,973	194	52,888	1,930
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	1,909	548	913	408
Russian	768	262	259	161
Scandinavian languages	278	126	58	43
Serbo-Croatian languages	690	373	223	146
Tagalog	1,600	357	446	164
Thai	209	123	63	60
Urdu	1,217	487	578	250
Vietnamese	15,640	832	8,354	724
Yiddish	43	48	2	5
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	4,893	1,007	1,169	355
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	24,801	867	12,499	857
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	23,572	1,502	5,568	675
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	72,360	1,539	33,652	1,379
Speak a language other than English at home	125,626	2,379	52,888	1,930
Speak only English at home	1,005,347	2,367	(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.