Languages spoken in Rochester, NY

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 Rochester [NY]

Table showing languages spoken in Rochester, NY

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	135	145	100	117
Afrikaans	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Albanian	495	339	280	234
American Indian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Amharic	645	321	395	215
Bantu	120	91	55	71
Bengali	430	231	115	75
Bielorussian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bisayan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bulgarian	65	50	20	24
Burmese	575	299	545	299
Cantonese	665	253	265	183
Catalonian	20	34	(D)	(D)
Chinese	4,295	662	2,320	397
Croatian	75	46	30	29
Cushite	775	457	425	393
Czech	70	48	(D)	(D)
Dakota	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Danish	50	36	(D)	(D)
Dutch	825	202	235	112
Estonian	30	29	(B)	-
Finnish	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Formosan	400	273	290	194
French	3,930	461	650	163
Fulani	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
German	4,730	633	805	201
Gondi	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Hakka	25	31	(D)	(D)
Ilocano	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
India nec3	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Indonesian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Irish Gaelic	60	49	(D)	(D)
Jamaican Creole	145	88	30	28
Kannada	85	59	(D)	(D)
Karen	210	143	205	143
Kazakh	185	205	140	146
Keres	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Krio	30	38	(D)	(D)
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	415	176	80	75
Kuchin	30	52	(B)	-
Latvian	50	41	(B)	-
Lithuanian	215	122	30	33
Macedonian	495	194	210	116
Malay	115	113	(B)	-
Malayalam	350	178	115	78
Mandarin	920	228	285	127
Mande	60	78	55	76
Marathi	185	208	(D)	(D)
Mayan languages	55	69	(D)	(D)
Mohawk	45	45	(D)	(D)
Nepali	725	465	685	446
Nilotic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Norwegian	40	46	(D)	(D)
Ojibwa	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Oriya	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Pakistan nec3	100	172	90	151
Palau	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Panjabi	575	321	230	159
Papia Mentae	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Patois	135	121	35	45
Pennsylvania Dutch	1,810	398	770	249
Portuguese	505	180	175	118
Romanian	200	139	50	52
Sebuano	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Serbian	35	29	(D)	(D)
Serbocroatian	955	401	370	153
Sinhalese	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Slovak	55	58	(B)	-
Slovene	25	34	(D)	(D)
Spanish	45,455	1,332	15,090	913
Swahili	315	261	195	159
Swedish	135	99	(B)	-
Tamil	430	168	(D)	(D)
Telugu	455	216	165	163
Tibetan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Towa	40	57	(D)	(D)
Turkish	2,085	569	1,030	303
Uighur	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Ukrainian	2,770	534	1,310	323
Wu	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	2,514	570	1,305	513
Arabic	1,807	454	821	299
Armenian	120	78	56	58
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	6,317	761	3,173	518
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	4,067	493	685	177
French Creole	1,116	406	548	319
German (incl Luxembourgian)	4,732	633	805	201
Greek	973	296	314	132
Gujarati	311	136	77	51
Hebrew	633	284	121	88
Hindi	2,147	641	451	214
Hungarian	289	133	102	47
Italian	7,153	764	2,380	316
Japanese	706	235	307	144
Korean	1,516	352	562	141
Laotian	1,275	316	746	195
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	354	152	139	81
Navajo	1	5	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	149	112	39	65
Other Asian languages	4,504	761	2,328	509
Other Indic languages	2,134	646	1,214	510
Other Indo-European languages	1,217	406	423	242
Other Native North American languages	193	117	48	41
Other Pacific Island languages	193	134	21	26
Other Slavic languages	3,491	587	1,573	344
Other West Germanic languages	2,664	481	1,008	277
Persian	507	292	35	29
Polish	2,087	418	689	183
Population 5 years and over	1,020,533	101	39,591	1,450
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	523	179	176	118
Russian	3,089	601	1,587	381
Scandinavian languages	223	113	32	37
Serbo-Croatian languages	1,064	415	409	156
Tagalog	805	243	128	62
Thai	316	162	110	66
Urdu	739	296	194	144
Vietnamese	2,920	552	1,835	359
Yiddish	268	94	59	43
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	5,586	783	2,436	579
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	18,906	1,055	9,349	716
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	38,625	2,050	12,715	1,138
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	45,454	1,332	15,091	913
Speak a language other than English at home	108,571	2,681	39,591	1,450
Speak only English at home	911,962	2,687	(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.