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Change Indicator

Children who speak a language other than English at home in United States

Children who speak a language other than English at home

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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definition and Source

PROVIDER

Definition

Children ages 5 to 17 that speak a language other than English at home.

Data Source

PRB analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Census Supplementary Survey & American Community Survey table C16007.

Notes

S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points.

N.A. - Data not available.

The Census Bureau advises that due to methodological changes to data collection, comparisons should be made with caution between 2013 estimates on 'English ability' and those from prior years. For a detailed account of those changes see the U.S. Census Bureau’s Note on Estimates for Language Spoken at Home from the 2013 American Community Survey.

Data are provided for the 50 most populous cities according to the most recent Census counts. Cities for which data are collected may change over time.

Use caution when comparing congressional districts over time. Congressional district boundaries may change between decennial censuses. Annual data for each congressional district refers to the boundaries for that district in that year.

A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at

Children who speak a language other than English at home.

Last Updated

September 2024