Non-English Speakers in the US

Ever wondered how many people don’t speak English at home in the US? I did, so I pulled some stats from www.census.gov and came up with my own infographic.

Big language communities

Languages spoken by over one million people at home in the US (2007):

Spanish:              34.5 million

Chinese:              2.46 million

French:                1.98 million                 (includes Patois, Cajun, Creole)

Tagalog:              1.48 million

Vietnamese:       1.2 million

German:              1.1 million

Korean:               1.06 million

Integration the into English-speaking world

Languages spoken by fewer people in the US in 2007, compared to 1980:

Italian

German

Yiddish

Greek

Polish

See the raw data here: http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/data/acs/Table1.xls