Languages spoken in Worcester, MA-CT

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 Worcester [MA-CT]

Table showing languages spoken in Worcester, MA-CT

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	105	80	75	61
Afrikaans	50	51	(B)	-
Albanian	2,385	475	1,355	384
Amharic	170	134	90	97
Bantu	530	257	135	91
Bengali	455	196	180	130
Berber	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	40	47	(D)	(D)
Burmese	175	142	140	124
Cantonese	470	216	235	115
Caucasian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chadic	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Chinese	4,440	596	2,260	438
Comanche	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Croatian	20	36	(B)	-
Cushite	80	125	40	69
Czech	60	44	(D)	(D)
Dakota	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Danish	125	105	(D)	(D)
Dravidian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Dutch	350	163	(D)	(D)
Estonian	40	35	(D)	(D)
Finnish	380	137	110	64
Formosan	80	81	(D)	(D)
French	11,245	826	2,340	487
German	1,925	347	165	71
Gondi	30	52	(D)	(D)
India nec3	325	204	185	136
Indonesian	130	110	60	65
Irish Gaelic	130	101	(D)	(D)
Jamaican Creole	100	71	(B)	-
Kannada	465	238	(D)	(D)
Kashmiri	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Keres	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	5,155	836	1,950	502
Kuchin	80	83	(D)	(D)
Latvian	70	55	30	31
Lithuanian	645	187	170	107
Macedonian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malay	40	48	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	400	256	155	141
Mandarin	940	307	420	188
Mande	120	105	40	37
Marathi	255	156	35	32
Nepali	960	551	555	290
Nilotic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Norwegian	60	46	(B)	-
Palau	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pampangan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Panjabi	455	256	205	190
Papia Mentae	70	77	(D)	(D)
Pashto	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Patois	105	84	(D)	(D)
Portuguese	10,780	955	5,235	782
Romanian	155	94	50	41
Scottic Gaelic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sebuano	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Serbian	100	84	(D)	(D)
Serbocroatian	150	100	60	60
Sinhalese	95	86	20	18
Slovak	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Slovene	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Spanish	66,610	1,474	29,230	1,473
Swahili	1,955	480	790	329
Swedish	325	137	(D)	(D)
Syriac	15	19	15	19
Tamil	1,530	392	275	171
Telugu	1,905	521	580	339
Tongan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Turkish	275	149	130	90
Uighur	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ukrainian	105	52	(D)	(D)
Uncodable	25	25	(B)	-
Welsh	10	14	(D)	(D)
Wu	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
African languages	8,150	984	3,142	601
Arabic	2,920	615	1,193	314
Armenian	543	167	93	70
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	5,963	672	2,935	493
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	11,350	826	2,343	485
French Creole	2,372	701	784	306
German (incl Luxembourgian)	1,925	347	167	71
Greek	2,673	481	873	238
Gujarati	482	201	101	83
Hebrew	353	164	22	27
Hindi	2,548	503	549	209
Hmong	248	162	166	93
Hungarian	279	113	40	27
Italian	3,138	489	567	159
Japanese	415	134	146	85
Korean	890	256	597	200
Laotian	1,011	422	552	257
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	441	238	133	97
Navajo	40	57	(B)	-
Other and unspecified languages	475	147	137	68
Other Asian languages	4,815	710	1,307	398
Other Indic languages	2,569	707	1,208	425
Other Indo-European languages	3,534	556	1,628	411
Other Native North American languages	114	94	35	38
Other Pacific Island languages	277	134	92	74
Other Slavic languages	256	96	57	43
Other West Germanic languages	401	179	8	13
Persian	1,225	563	732	472
Polish	4,196	576	1,515	370
Population 5 years and over	868,453	79	61,293	2,142
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	10,851	973	5,264	789
Russian	2,183	488	824	250
Scandinavian languages	508	189	38	34
Serbo-Croatian languages	268	129	67	61
Tagalog	771	273	391	214
Thai	232	159	182	144
Urdu	910	334	194	122
Vietnamese	6,207	843	3,978	646
Yiddish	8	12	2	7
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	12,331	1,125	4,569	665
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	21,270	920	10,479	848
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	51,940	2,019	17,014	1,399
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	66,610	1,474	29,231	1,473
Speak a language other than English at home	152,151	2,421	61,293	2,142
Speak only English at home	716,302	2,424	(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.