Languages spoken in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-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 New York-Newark-Jersey City [NY-NJ-PA]

Table showing languages spoken in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-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	115	103	(B)	-
American Indian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Amharic	15	38	15	38
Aztecan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bantu	125	121	(D)	(D)
Bengali	40	50	40	50
Bisayan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	245	195	35	31
Burmese	50	77	50	77
Cantonese	100	103	(D)	(D)
Chamorro	125	120	(B)	-
Chinese	1,125	409	680	326
Croatian	175	127	50	42
Czech	565	332	210	154
Dakota	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Danish	60	54	(B)	-
Dutch	920	251	90	93
Estonian	65	74	(B)	-
Finnish	160	161	(D)	(D)
Formosan	125	163	80	112
French	4,735	625	1,235	341
German	5,000	514	875	201
Havasupai	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Icelandic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
India nec3	370	297	165	165
Indonesian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Irish Gaelic	35	44	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	115	118	(D)	(D)
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Latvian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Lithuanian	90	66	(D)	(D)
Macedonian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malay	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malayalam	45	55	(B)	-
Mandarin	255	167	115	107
Marathi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Mayan languages	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Munda	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Muskogee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Norwegian	320	185	40	39
Pashto	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Patois	100	73	(B)	-
Pennsylvania Dutch	275	131	35	29
Ponapean	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Portuguese	1,275	467	570	258
Romanian	405	162	190	100
Serbian	180	103	45	45
Serbocroatian	180	142	55	45
Slovak	130	84	(D)	(D)
Spanish	60,175	1,703	27,940	1,654
Swahili	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Swedish	275	144	(D)	(D)
Syriac	35	36	(D)	(D)
Tamil	40	44	(B)	-
Telugu	85	87	(B)	-
Turkish	235	148	(D)	(D)
Ukrainian	1,375	532	540	312
African languages	161	129	43	58
Arabic	567	263	213	131
Armenian	126	94	(B)	-
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	1,608	457	913	353
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	4,837	635	1,237	341
French Creole	3,464	1,054	1,266	430
German (incl Luxembourgian)	4,998	514	875	201
Greek	448	179	40	34
Gujarati	1,039	481	365	207
Hebrew	205	131	20	22
Hindi	443	186	116	103
Hungarian	1,738	482	670	327
Italian	2,300	398	545	165
Japanese	356	192	96	93
Korean	231	96	151	86
Laotian	109	148	(B)	-
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	154	110	105	77
Other and unspecified languages	307	198	96	90
Other Asian languages	466	197	57	77
Other Indic languages	438	310	206	189
Other Indo-European languages	684	222	265	129
Other Native North American languages	128	109	22	39
Other Pacific Island languages	178	126	27	35
Other Slavic languages	2,330	634	814	339
Other West Germanic languages	1,311	295	125	100
Persian	93	62	36	55
Polish	2,331	658	1,180	506
Population 5 years and over	679,795	52	41,011	1,972
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	1,275	467	568	258
Russian	2,009	508	1,013	283
Scandinavian languages	679	239	78	61
Serbo-Croatian languages	537	225	152	75
Tagalog	1,191	358	335	207
Thai	184	116	73	73
Urdu	314	359	(B)	-
Vietnamese	2,000	527	1,360	432
Yiddish	97	54	9	14
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	3,106	615	1,064	351
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	6,477	586	3,117	507
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	29,753	1,959	8,890	966
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	60,176	1,703	27,940	1,654
Speak a language other than English at home	99,512	2,712	41,011	1,972
Speak only English at home	580,283	2,720	(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.