Languages spoken in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA

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 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario [CA]

Table showing languages spoken in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA

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	100	94	45	73
Afrikaans	325	145	75	53
Albanian	200	137	115	94
American Indian	40	35	(D)	(D)
Amharic	1,950	990	360	194
Apache	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Arawakian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Azerbaijani	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Aztecan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Balochi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bantu	850	424	240	233
Basque	110	85	(D)	(D)
Bengali	905	356	275	144
Bikol	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bisayan	1,200	473	635	379
Bulgarian	535	266	155	137
Burmese	555	346	220	147
Cahuilla	15	13	(B)	-
Cajun	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cantonese	4,300	871	2,045	629
Catalonian	25	42	(B)	-
Caucasian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chadic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chamorro	330	175	45	53
Chemehuevi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cherokee	70	59	(B)	-
Chinese	20,905	1,823	11,695	1,033
Choctaw	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cocomaricopa	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Croatian	170	97	55	63
Cushite	165	104	60	65
Czech	115	73	35	39
Dakota	40	39	(B)	-
Danish	515	201	100	67
Diegueno	35	39	(D)	(D)
Dravidian	25	38	(B)	-
Dutch	2,425	430	390	119
Efik	45	52	(B)	-
Estonian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Fijian	85	79	85	79
Finnish	275	153	(D)	(D)
Formosan	2,180	485	1,455	350
French	7,870	769	1,560	238
Frisian	90	61	50	45
Fulani	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
German	9,570	990	1,310	270
Gur	175	285	(B)	-
Hawaiian	210	131	(B)	-
Hopi	95	99	(B)	-
Icelandic	60	61	(B)	-
Ilocano	735	214	390	149
India nec3	410	238	130	95
Indonesian	5,440	860	2,615	484
Irish Gaelic	90	70	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	85	64	(D)	(D)
Kachin	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kannada	165	105	70	52
Karen	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Karok	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Kazakh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Keres	20	27	(B)	-
Krio	250	222	80	101
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	4,085	807	570	249
Kurdish	205	172	75	119
Kusaiean	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ladino	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Latvian	90	66	(B)	-
Lithuanian	140	95	50	41
Luiseno	45	55	(D)	(D)
Macedonian	45	48	(D)	(D)
Malagasy	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malay	160	128	85	88
Malayalam	480	198	75	64
Mandarin	9,900	1,245	5,270	850
Marathi	695	332	135	89
Marshallese	30	37	30	37
Mayan languages	80	62	55	64
Micronesian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Mien	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Mohave	50	27	(D)	(D)
Mongolian	85	114	55	89
Munda	60	87	(B)	-
Muskogee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nepali	170	127	95	93
Nilotic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Norwegian	320	111	(B)	-
Oto - Manguen	85	101	75	95
Pakistan nec3	90	103	(D)	(D)
Palau	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Pampangan	85	83	45	49
Panjabi	5,925	1,657	2,415	761
Pashto	155	160	65	68
Patois	125	94	(B)	-
Pidgin	70	62	(B)	-
Pima	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ponapean	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Portuguese	3,855	652	1,245	304
Quechua	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Romanian	2,910	592	1,340	331
Samoan	2,055	477	715	304
Scottic Gaelic	70	55	(D)	(D)
Sebuano	460	236	110	82
Serbian	415	212	140	93
Serbocroatian	180	99	55	44
Serrano	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sindhi	70	90	(D)	(D)
Sinhalese	370	179	50	39
Slovak	100	68	(B)	-
Slovene	10	14	(B)	-
Spanish	1,325,010	7,523	533,545	5,686
Sudanic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Swahili	960	410	90	64
Swedish	500	169	65	55
Syriac	865	416	240	165
Tamil	410	184	55	49
Telugu	830	292	365	219
Tongan	2,155	816	555	254
Turkish	450	201	75	54
Uighur	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ukrainian	95	54	(D)	(D)
Welsh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Wu	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
African languages	8,465	1,264	1,375	331
Arabic	18,288	1,957	6,835	1,081
Armenian	2,432	686	608	251
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	37,306	2,468	20,495	1,631
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	7,995	764	1,561	238
French Creole	658	280	116	98
German (incl Luxembourgian)	9,571	990	1,308	270
Greek	1,082	283	198	80
Gujarati	3,978	987	1,487	471
Hebrew	905	349	169	241
Hindi	5,476	981	1,316	405
Hmong	1,587	495	743	311
Hungarian	1,044	251	292	92
Italian	3,759	473	719	192
Japanese	5,095	697	2,273	424
Korean	20,930	1,967	11,883	1,113
Laotian	2,087	534	1,075	330
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	6,968	1,832	3,117	643
Navajo	277	136	41	39
Other and unspecified languages	1,550	452	491	206
Other Asian languages	3,194	644	920	308
Other Indic languages	8,636	1,810	3,125	814
Other Indo-European languages	4,318	713	1,770	395
Other Native North American languages	503	160	71	55
Other Pacific Island languages	13,088	1,309	5,360	771
Other Slavic languages	901	295	219	149
Other West Germanic languages	2,841	458	516	143
Persian	6,815	955	2,409	435
Polish	1,749	420	600	276
Population 5 years and over	3,966,828	8	640,984	6,355
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	3,855	652	1,244	304
Russian	3,070	608	1,235	400
Scandinavian languages	1,392	286	165	90
Serbo-Croatian languages	762	257	252	117
Tagalog	57,329	2,347	16,986	1,315
Thai	4,559	808	2,576	492
Urdu	4,628	775	1,303	329
Vietnamese	22,181	1,693	12,570	1,217
Yiddish	227	189	17	24
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	31,032	2,350	9,274	1,162
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	174,324	2,925	77,998	2,729
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	74,145	3,230	20,168	1,501
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	1,325,021	7,523	533,544	5,686
Speak a language other than English at home	1,604,522	8,459	640,984	6,355
Speak only English at home	2,362,306	8,460	(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.