Languages spoken in San Diego-Carlsbad, 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward [CA]

Table showing languages spoken in San Diego-Carlsbad, 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	265	281	(D)	(D)
Afrikaans	575	169	20	29
Albanian	270	134	70	54
Aleut	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
American Indian	45	45	(B)	-
Amharic	5,335	914	2,155	372
Apache	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Arawakian	55	51	(D)	(D)
Arikara	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Assamese	65	78	(B)	-
Aztecan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Balinese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bantu	1,080	463	355	213
Basque	150	83	100	59
Bengali	3,600	708	770	258
Berber	395	241	360	221
Bielorussian	35	41	(D)	(D)
Bikol	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bisayan	1,280	345	490	209
Bulgarian	1,435	377	490	226
Burmese	7,175	970	4,685	698
Cajun	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Cantonese	114,360	3,669	68,445	2,526
Catalonian	75	60	(B)	-
Caucasian	175	151	135	146
Chadic	70	96	(B)	-
Chamorro	520	187	40	49
Cherokee	75	76	(D)	(D)
Chinese	186,840	5,097	111,225	3,364
Choctaw	10	11	(D)	(D)
Comanche	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Croatian	1,270	432	190	90
Cushite	175	157	80	79
Czech	1,300	380	210	87
Dakota	60	59	(B)	-
Danish	1,305	280	115	102
Dravidian	70	71	(B)	-
Dutch	3,385	523	305	120
Efik	90	67	(D)	(D)
Estonian	90	73	(B)	-
Fijian	1,005	417	270	141
Finnish	460	152	60	51
Formosan	4,850	731	2,625	504
French	26,835	1,601	3,265	444
Fulani	130	120	65	60
German	19,610	1,183	2,020	315
Gondi	115	135	80	97
Hakka	90	63	80	59
Hawaiian	335	174	75	63
Hopi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Icelandic	170	136	40	48
Ilocano	2,555	585	1,165	391
India nec3	1,085	401	490	216
Indonesian	4,435	759	2,060	515
Inupik	55	75	(D)	(D)
Irish Gaelic	1,005	346	185	179
Jamaican Creole	205	194	85	97
Javanese	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Kannada	2,225	517	245	113
Karachay	15	20	(D)	(D)
Karen	110	126	110	126
Kashmiri	180	198	(D)	(D)
Kazakh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Krio	95	73	(D)	(D)
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	2,695	656	520	254
Kurdish	245	188	185	162
Latvian	535	173	110	64
Lithuanian	240	152	115	94
Luxembourgian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Macedonian	60	57	(B)	-
Malagasy	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Malay	275	204	20	20
Malayalam	2,895	842	515	260
Mandarin	42,655	2,240	20,835	1,305
Mande	40	44	(D)	(D)
Maori	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Marathi	3,790	757	405	192
Marshallese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Mayan languages	455	301	385	271
Mien	3,655	879	1,745	450
Mongolian	1,500	519	745	252
Mountain Maidu	95	117	(B)	-
Muskogee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Nepali	2,590	647	1,515	390
Nilo-Saharan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Nilotic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Norwegian	1,075	276	70	47
Ojibwa	30	27	(B)	-
Oriya	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Other Athapascan-Eyak	20	34	(B)	-
Oto - Manguen	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ottawa	35	44	(D)	(D)
Pakistan nec3	350	259	170	124
Palau	140	101	45	60
Pampangan	1,315	397	485	208
Pangasinan	545	276	355	190
Panjabi	19,985	2,339	8,060	1,149
Pashto	1,580	525	700	283
Patois	245	196	(B)	-
Pidgin	40	43	(B)	-
Pima	40	28	(B)	-
Polynesian	60	48	(D)	(D)
Pomo	135	176	(B)	-
Ponapean	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ponca	70	116	(B)	-
Portuguese	15,240	1,574	5,185	784
Rajasthani	45	56	(D)	(D)
Rhaeto-Romanic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Romanian	2,285	432	635	222
Romany	40	66	(B)	-
Saharan	80	95	(D)	(D)
Samoan	4,645	855	905	268
Sebuano	670	238	190	110
Serbian	835	229	130	64
Serbocroatian	1,845	434	815	302
Shoshoni	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sierra Miwok	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sindhi	680	430	190	170
Sinhalese	525	232	85	69
Slovak	495	287	(D)	(D)
Slovene	70	43	(D)	(D)
Spanish	677,465	4,393	310,670	4,215
Swahili	1,560	480	400	194
Swedish	2,365	393	265	189
Syriac	585	253	145	93
Tamil	10,660	1,041	1,910	460
Telugu	10,285	1,136	2,110	519
Tibetan	1,260	368	625	247
Tongan	5,505	843	2,060	485
Tonkawa	15	23	(D)	(D)
Turkish	2,760	613	1,015	334
Uighur	205	166	175	164
Ukrainian	1,165	460	520	207
Uncodable	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Welsh	60	51	(D)	(D)
Winnebago	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Wu	295	166	220	152
Yapese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Yuma	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Yurok	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	11,939	1,422	4,018	640
Arabic	21,983	1,970	7,957	995
Armenian	3,709	701	943	246
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	349,087	5,470	203,434	3,738
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	27,085	1,623	3,263	444
French Creole	790	277	315	197
German (incl Luxembourgian)	19,620	1,181	2,022	315
Greek	4,971	639	817	190
Gujarati	9,682	1,279	2,443	466
Hebrew	4,560	775	542	183
Hindi	42,523	2,437	7,383	932
Hmong	1,007	429	444	276
Hungarian	1,929	504	536	213
Italian	13,705	1,143	2,868	426
Japanese	23,070	1,475	9,891	786
Korean	30,917	2,149	16,910	1,417
Laotian	3,259	675	1,766	412
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	6,031	1,002	3,302	650
Navajo	243	150	38	41
Other and unspecified languages	2,034	419	876	325
Other Asian languages	42,942	2,124	13,968	1,196
Other Indic languages	32,985	2,595	11,716	1,258
Other Indo-European languages	6,641	861	2,127	449
Other Native North American languages	819	294	72	76
Other Pacific Island languages	23,471	1,798	8,225	968
Other Slavic languages	4,548	790	1,409	365
Other West Germanic languages	3,961	543	325	124
Persian	28,645	2,281	10,565	1,125
Polish	2,987	526	933	252
Population 5 years and over	4,142,712	101	736,524	6,867
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	15,242	1,574	5,186	784
Russian	30,857	1,875	15,321	1,208
Scandinavian languages	4,909	633	488	248
Serbo-Croatian languages	3,951	688	1,135	335
Tagalog	155,202	3,556	53,027	2,168
Thai	6,140	898	3,165	589
Urdu	7,941	1,237	1,702	420
Vietnamese	46,608	2,735	26,667	1,691
Yiddish	258	84	56	32
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	43,507	2,710	14,039	1,180
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	687,734	6,235	340,799	4,681
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	265,010	5,477	71,017	2,720
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	677,465	4,393	310,669	4,215
Speak a language other than English at home	1,673,716	7,847	736,524	6,867
Speak only English at home	2,468,996	7,858	(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.