Languages spoken in Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA

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 Omaha-Council Bluffs [NE-IA]

Table showing languages spoken in Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA

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
Albanian	60	74	(D)	(D)
American Indian	50	49	(B)	-
Amharic	185	145	115	116
Arapaho	20	23	(D)	(D)
Bantu	175	125	(D)	(D)
Bengali	415	215	135	145
Bisayan	145	143	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Burmese	345	180	315	175
Cajun	40	57	(D)	(D)
Cantonese	35	31	(D)	(D)
Chadic	30	52	(D)	(D)
Chamorro	60	45	(D)	(D)
Cherokee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	1,400	340	925	302
Croatian	75	66	25	31
Cushite	765	400	365	261
Czech	550	152	60	34
Dakota	95	48	(D)	(D)
Danish	60	41	30	29
Dutch	155	83	(D)	(D)
Efik	50	57	(D)	(D)
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	30	37	(D)	(D)
Fox	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
French	3,365	614	1,015	272
Fulani	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
German	2,165	334	320	97
Hawaiian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
India nec3	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	90	89	30	27
Inupik	45	73	(D)	(D)
Irish Gaelic	65	70	(B)	-
Kannada	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Karen	1,310	505	1,230	496
Krio	55	74	(B)	-
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	360	158	155	143
Lithuanian	220	96	35	34
Malayalam	110	93	(B)	-
Mandarin	360	160	150	62
Mande	240	223	115	134
Marathi	175	141	20	26
Mayan languages	420	378	415	377
Miami	40	103	35	90
Mokilese	45	52	(B)	-
Mongolian	60	68	40	44
Nepali	985	445	710	380
Nilotic	1,005	483	390	202
Norwegian	65	39	(D)	(D)
Ojibwa	30	46	(B)	-
Omaha	105	67	(B)	-
Palau	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pampangan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	45	53	(D)	(D)
Pashto	75	79	20	26
Ponca	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Portuguese	460	150	100	55
Romanian	110	64	(D)	(D)
Samoan	4	7	(B)	-
Scottic Gaelic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Serbian	35	38	(B)	-
Serbocroatian	125	126	40	50
Sinhalese	55	83	(B)	-
Slovak	10	12	10	12
Slovene	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Spanish	56,290	1,503	27,745	1,263
Sudanic	670	342	300	158
Swahili	90	49	10	19
Swedish	85	47	(B)	-
Tamil	680	232	170	109
Telugu	775	267	125	66
Tibetan	95	95	(D)	(D)
Tlingit	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Tonkawa	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Turkish	240	207	(D)	(D)
Uighur	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ukrainian	155	117	95	87
Uncodable	80	52	(B)	-
Winnebago	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	3,592	834	1,549	446
Arabic	1,419	307	665	214
Armenian	5	9	(B)	-
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	1,830	387	1,099	313
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	3,404	614	1,032	270
French Creole	69	94	(B)	-
German (incl Luxembourgian)	2,164	334	320	97
Greek	176	79	82	68
Gujarati	232	141	66	69
Hebrew	79	73	(B)	-
Hindi	911	305	183	151
Hmong	37	47	12	17
Italian	1,201	313	285	118
Japanese	713	235	214	115
Korean	690	223	345	157
Laotian	13	19	13	19
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	22	30	13	19
Other and unspecified languages	520	377	417	377
Other Asian languages	3,663	585	1,958	491
Other Indic languages	1,701	531	900	381
Other Indo-European languages	592	180	81	57
Other Native North American languages	493	184	107	116
Other Pacific Island languages	372	183	53	32
Other Slavic languages	767	209	177	95
Other West Germanic languages	157	83	14	22
Persian	464	306	315	292
Polish	533	188	73	38
Population 5 years and over	810,683	109	40,140	1,533
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	459	150	100	55
Russian	533	151	215	95
Scandinavian languages	210	78	40	42
Serbo-Croatian languages	237	144	66	57
Tagalog	812	267	167	93
Thai	469	183	201	85
Urdu	340	178	111	99
Vietnamese	2,251	506	1,484	439
Yiddish	102	106	39	50
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	6,103	1,044	2,738	697
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	10,872	747	5,559	627
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	14,257	1,127	4,099	646
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	56,288	1,503	27,744	1,263
Speak a language other than English at home	87,520	2,134	40,140	1,533
Speak only English at home	723,163	2,115	(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.