Language spoken at home and the ability to speak English for the population age 5 and over as reported by the US Census Bureau's, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates table C16001.

This map shows the predominant language spoken at home by the US population aged 5+. This is shown by Census Tract and County centroids. The data values are from the 2012-2016 American Community Survey 5-year estimates in the S1601 Table for Language Spoken at Home. The popup in the map provides a breakdown of the population age 5+ by the language spoken at home. Data values for other age groups are also available within the data's table. The color of the symbols represent the most common language spoken at home. This predominance map style compares the count of people age 5+ based on what language is spoken at home, and returns the value with the highest count. The census breaks down the population 5+ by the following language options:English OnlyNon-English - SpanishNon-English - Asian and Pacific Islander LanguagesNon-English - Indo European LanguagesNon-English - OtherThe size of the symbols represents how many people are 5 years or older, which helps highlight the quantity of people that live within an area that were sampled for this language categorization. The strength of the color represents HOW predominant an language is within an area. If the symbol is a strong color, it makes up a larger portion of the population. This map is designed for a dark basemap such as the Human Geography Basemap or the Dark Gray Canvas Basemap. See the web map to see the pattern at both the county and tract level. This map helps to show the most common language spoken at home at both a regional and local level. The tract pattern shows how distinct neighborhoods are clustered by which language they speak. The county pattern shows how language is used throughout the country. This pattern is shown by census tracts at large scales, and counties at smaller scales.This data was downloaded from the United States Census Bureau American Fact Finder on January 16, 2018. It was then joined with 2016 vintage centroid points and hosted to ArcGIS Online and into the Living Atlas.Nationally, the breakdown of education for the population 5+ is as follows:Total EstimateMargin of ErrorPercent EstimateMargin of ErrorPopulation 5 years and over298,691,202+/-3,594(X)(X)Speak only English235,519,143+/-154,40978.90%+/-0.1Spanish39,145,066+/-94,57113.10%+/-0.1Asian and Pacific Island languages10,172,370+/-22,5613.40%+/-0.1Other Indo-European languages10,827,536+/-46,3353.60%+/-0.1Other languages3,027,087+/-23,3021.00%+/-0.1

This data set uses the 2009-2013 American Community Survey to tabulate the number of speakers of languages spoken at home and the number of speakers of each language who speak English less than very well. These tabulations are available for the following geographies: nation; each of the 50 states, plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico; counties with 100,000 or more total population and 25,000 or more speakers of languages other than English and Spanish; core-based statistical areas (metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas) with 100,000 or more total population and 25,000 or more speakers of languages other than English and Spanish.

Mexico is the country with the largest number of native Spanish speakers in the world. As of 2024, 132.5 million people in Mexico spoke Spanish with a native command of the language. Colombia was the nation with the second-highest number of native Spanish speakers, at around 52.7 million. Spain came in third, with 48 million, and Argentina fourth, with 46 million. Spanish, a world language As of 2023, Spanish ranked as the fourth most spoken language in the world, only behind English, Chinese, and Hindi, with over half a billion speakers. Spanish is the official language of over 20 countries, the majority on the American continent, nonetheless, it's also one of the official languages of Equatorial Guinea in Africa. Other countries have a strong influence, like the United States, Morocco, or Brazil, countries included in the list of non-Hispanic countries with the highest number of Spanish speakers. The second most spoken language in the U.S. In the most recent data, Spanish ranked as the language, other than English, with the highest number of speakers, with 12 times more speakers as the second place. Which comes to no surprise following the long history of migrations from Latin American countries to the Northern country. Moreover, only during the fiscal year 2022. 5 out of the top 10 countries of origin of naturalized people in the U.S. came from Spanish-speaking countries.

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