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JUNE 3, 2025 — More than 1 in 5 people (22%) age 5 and older in the United States spoke a language other than English at home during the five-year period from 2017 to 2021, according to new data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The newly released table package — Detailed Languages Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over: 2017–2021 — provides data on over 500 individual languages and language groups spoken across the country during this time. The information is based on data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS).
This is the third tabulation the Census Bureau has released of detailed languages in addition to the 42 languages and language groups published annually in the ACS. It updates the last detailed language table package released in 2015.
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📖 New on America Counts
How Native North American Language Use Changed in the United States
Some of the 70-plus Native North American languages spoken across the nation were among the most spoken languages after English in nine states, according to detailed data tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
More than 1 in 5 people age 5 and older spoke a language other than English at home in 2021, according to 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates.
The new language tables update a 2015 table package with data on more than 500 languages and language groups spoken in the United States, representing linguistic diversity from around the world.
The data highlight over 70 Native North American languages and the states where they are most common.
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