English Proficiency by Language (Los Angeles County, 2012)

Ability to speak English by language spoken at home, population 5 years and older, Los Angeles County 2012.

Of those who speak an Asian or Pacific Island language at home in Los Angeles County, more than half (51.7%) speak English less than "very well."
Of those who speak Spanish at home in Los Angeles County, nearly half (45.9%) speak English less than "very well."

Language Spoken at Home, Los Angeles County, 2012	Percentage Who Speak English Less than "Very Well" within Specified Language Group
Spanish or Spanish Creole	45.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander Languages (details below)	51.7%
Other Indo-European Languages (details below)	38.9%
Other Languages (details below)	31.3%

	Total Number of Those Who Don't Speak English at Home	Number Who Speak English Less than "Very Well"	Percentage of Limited English Speakers within Specified Language
Spanish or Spanish Creole	3,657,196	1,677,370	45.9%

Asian and Pacific Islander Languages	Total Number of Those Who Don't Speak English at Home	Number Who Speak English Less than "Very Well"	Percentage of Limited English Speakers within Specified Language
Chinese	349,941	208,115	59.5%
Japanese	51,892	24,908	48.0%
Korean	188,514	115,431	61.2%
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	30,208	17,284	57.2%
Hmong	899	292	32.5%
Thai	25,209	15,282	60.6%
Laotian	3,171	1,325	41.8%
Vietnamese	81,744	48,106	58.8%
Other Asian languages	25,134	9,476	37.7%
Tagalog	225,847	72,496	32.1%
Other Pacific Island languages	27,549	9,425	34.2%
Total	1,010,108	522,140	51.7%

Other Indo- European Languages	Total Number of Those Who Don't Speak English at Home	Number Who Speak English Less than "Very Well"	Percentage of Limited English Speakers within Specified Language
French	40,104	6,703	16.7%
French Creole	2,995	404	13.5%
Italian	15,579	3,370	21.6%
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole	12,518	3,351	26.8%
German	24,188	3,015	12.5%
Yiddish	1,833	289	15.8%
Other West Germanic languages	5,646	971	17.2%
Scandinavian languages	5,442	423	7.8%
Greek	6,947	1,714	24.7%
Russian	51,104	27,548	53.9%
Polish	5,215	1,416	27.2%
Serbo-Croatian	6,462	1,419	22.0%
Other Slavic languages	6,296	2,071	32.9%
Armenian	172,290	88,514	51.4%
Persian	74,097	30,738	41.5%
Gujarati	9,820	3,022	30.8%
Hindi	23,108	5,904	25.5%
Urdu	8,541	2,421	28.3%
Other Indic languages	26,255	11,012	41.9%
Other Indo- European languages	10,822	3,742	34.6%
Total	509,262	198,047	38.9%

Other Languages	Total Number of Those Who Don't Speak English at Home	Number Who Speak English Less than "Very Well"	Percentage of Limited English Speakers within Specified Language
Navajo	141	28	19.9%
Other Native North American languages	559	148	26.5%
Hungarian	4,896	1,755	35.8%
Arabic	44,071	17,013	38.6%
Hebrew	24,678	4,780	19.4%
African languages	21,608	5,915	27.4%
Other and unspecified languages	5,430	2,065	38.0%
Total	101,383	31,704	31.3%

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