Languages spoken in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD


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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington [PA-NJ-DE-MD]

Table showing languages spoken in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD






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
  • Armenian
  • Persian
  • Hindi
  • Gujarati
  • Urdu
  • Other Indic languages
  • Other Indo-European languages

    • ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES
  • Chinese (incl. Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages)
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
  • Hmong
  • Thai
  • Laotian
  • Vietnamese
  • Other Asian languages
  • Tagalog
  • Other Pacific Island languages

    • ALL OTHER LANGUAGES
  • Navajo
  • Other Native North American languages
  • Hungarian
  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • African languages
  • Other and unspecified languages



    • BY STATE
    BY COUNTY
    BY CITY
    LanguageNumber of speakersMargin of ErrorSpeak English less than "Very Well"Margin of Error
    African890351190116
    Afrikaans45517013063
    Albanian6,6201,0133,400579
    Algonquian(D)(D)(B)-
    Amharic3,080558960305
    Arawakian(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Assamese1516(B)-
    Azerbaijani(D)(D)(B)-
    Bantu7702678567
    Bengali7,7001,0463,240584
    Berber310179185127
    Bielorussian85784550
    Bisayan130795552
    Bulgarian1,195355410220
    Burmese1,055437730336
    Cajun(D)(D)(B)-
    Cantonese6,0358633,550646
    Carolinian(D)(D)(B)-
    Catalonian6572(D)(D)
    Caucasian28012318094
    Chadic10588(D)(D)
    Chamorro(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Cherokee1516(D)(D)
    Chinese45,2202,18024,9301,493
    Choctaw(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Croatian66025919589
    Cushite33027913597
    Czech400173175134
    Dakota8079(B)-
    Danish4402104538
    Delaware(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Dutch2,380505405265
    Efik2024(B)-
    Estonian220116(D)(D)
    Finnish12570(D)(D)
    Formosan1,220387625246
    French26,1151,7386,750838
    Fuchow225173225173
    Fulani1,270616720490
    German18,5409193,020372
    Gondi(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Gur185262130198
    Hawaiian(D)(D)(B)-
    Icelandic11579(B)-
    Ilocano130893539
    India nec32,680584800309
    Indonesian1,8155341,085347
    Inupik(D)(D)(B)-
    Irish Gaelic5601768066
    Jamaican Creole1,1304007056
    Javanese(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Kannada1,300369285168
    Karachay4062(D)(D)
    Kashmiri115175(D)(D)
    Keres9585(D)(D)
    Krio675272215155
    Kru, Ibo, Yoruba9,9251,1201,270304
    Kuchin4539(D)(D)
    Kurdish6576(D)(D)
    Latvian4201638058
    Lithuanian92029619092
    Lusatian(D)(D)(B)-
    Macedonian1351087570
    Malay330195190175
    Malayalam10,3701,1054,480612
    Mandarin7,0808374,250647
    Mande3,145844765368
    Maori3038(B)-
    Marathi2,640505425146
    Marshallese(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Mayan languages(D)(D)(B)-
    Melanesian190184(B)-
    Minangkabau(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Mohawk(D)(D)(B)-
    Mongolian5050(D)(D)
    Munda(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Muskogee(D)(D)(B)-
    Nepali1,190433750398
    Nilo-Hamitic(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Nilotic3534(B)-
    Norwegian3001505032
    Ojibwa(D)(D)(B)-
    Oriya5073(B)-
    Other Uralic languages(D)(D)(B)-
    Oto - Manguen15251525
    Ottawa200253(D)(D)
    Pakistan nec31451068066
    Palau(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Pampangan235301195289
    Panjabi4,7258271,975547
    Papia Mentae(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Pashto575311375233
    Patois1,02027110076
    Pennsylvania Dutch3,455728890437
    Pidgin4065(D)(D)
    Portuguese12,4801,5965,9701,041
    Potawatomi(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Romanian2,320439930209
    Samoan4548(B)-
    Santiam(D)(D)(D)(D)
    Scottic Gaelic5562(B)-
    Sebuano190992534
    Serbian940367275134
    Serbocroatian840333300166
    Sindhi610397180199
    Sinhalese2351369575
    Slovak655240215132
    Slovene4546(B)-
    Spanish350,5203,599141,8353,271
    Sudanic2024(D)(D)
    Swahili1,905390435152
    Swedish1,075276220109
    Syriac7579(D)(D)
    Tamil5,2806881,165387
    Telugu7,9451,0711,300293
    Tibetan330287155176
    Turkish4,2657391,865422
    Turkmen(D)(D)(B)-
    Uighur235165165137
    Ukrainian8,4851,0933,530701
    Uncodable230995544
    Welsh7548(B)-
    Wu2525(D)(D)
    African languages22,0091,9464,920839
    Arabic17,3601,6875,631715
    Armenian1,877453461182
    Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)59,8062,60833,5851,739
    French (incl Patois, Cajun)27,1421,6986,850850
    French Creole14,4541,5775,420925
    German (incl Luxembourgian)18,5409193,022372
    Greek10,3689182,718391
    Gujarati17,8741,7167,310837
    Hebrew5,329770632194
    Hindi16,7631,4383,741581
    Hmong1782334260
    Hungarian1,803334347109
    Italian29,2231,6698,174757
    Japanese3,8334571,197244
    Korean26,6941,66714,394998
    Laotian1,447547775371
    Mon-Khmer, Cambodian10,1861,3405,867985
    Navajo25392539
    Other and unspecified languages1,020214336126
    Other Asian languages30,9521,92410,2291,018
    Other Indic languages20,1041,5107,596925
    Other Indo-European languages13,5201,1365,388629
    Other Native North American languages53630413097
    Other Pacific Island languages3,2217471,686514
    Other Slavic languages11,0081,1984,458783
    Other West Germanic languages6,2888711,425505
    Persian3,3715831,065265
    Polish13,2811,0604,801661
    Population 5 years and over5,625,078198332,3014,542
    Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)12,4941,5945,9831,040
    Russian27,0691,97113,4951,125
    Scandinavian languages1,927382319120
    Serbo-Croatian languages2,444551773232
    Tagalog16,4981,2474,579650
    Thai1,682295872211
    Urdu9,4391,2942,695604
    Vietnamese30,3262,29419,3851,585
    Yiddish1,801446139105
    ALL OTHER LANGUAGES48,0822,84212,0211,228
    ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES184,8233,19692,6112,212
    OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES258,9874,64985,8332,622
    SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE350,5223,599141,8363,271
    Speak a language other than English at home842,4145,827332,3014,542
    Speak only English at home4,782,6645,825(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.


    Surnames by race:  Asian   |  Black   |  Hispanic   |  Native American   |  Two or More Races   |  White

    Surnames Alphabetical:  A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z

    Most Common Male Names:  1-300  |   301-600  |   601-900  |   901+  |   Alphabetical list

    Most Common Female Names:  1-1000 1001-2000  |   2001-3000  |   3001+  |   Alphabetical list

    Popular Baby Names in the U.S. (Historic)  Boys: 1-250  |  251-500  |  501-750  |  751-1000        Girls: 1-250  |  251-500  |  501-750  |  751-1000

    Ancestry in the United States:  Ancestry by city  |   Mexican  |   German  |   Irish  |   English  |   African American  |   More



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