Languages Other Than English Spoken at Home (San Diego County, 2012)

Languages other than English spoken at home, San Diego County, 2012.

Of those who speak a language other than English at home in San Diego County, roughly one in five (21.2%) speaks an Asian or Pacific Island language.

Of those who speak a language other than English at home in San Diego County, roughly two-thirds (66.1%) speak Spanish.

	Number	Percent of People Who Don't Speak English at Home
Spanish or Spanish Creole	731,697	66.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander Languages (details below)	234,974	21.2%
Other Indo-European Languages (details below)	91,965	8.3%
Other Languages (details below)	48,231	4.4%

Asian and Pacific Islander Languages	Number	Percent of People Who Don't Speak English at Home
Chinese	40,196	3.6%
Japanese	11,916	1.1%
Korean	13,843	1.3%
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	4,973	0.4%
Hmong	1,869	0.2%
Thai	2,160	0.2%
Laotian	5,573	0.5%
Vietnamese	43,413	3.9%
Other Asian languages	9,387	0.8%
Tagalog	92,836	8.4%
Other Pacific Island languages	8,808	0.8%
Total	234,974	21.2%

Other Indo-European Languages	Number	Percent of People Who Don't Speak English at Home
French	8,935	0.8%
French Creole	430	0.0%
Italian	5,170	0.5%
Portuguese or Portuguese Creole	4,513	0.4%
German	11,221	1.0%
Yiddish	420	0.0%
Other West Germanic languages	2,086	0.2%
Scandinavian languages	2,398	0.2%
Greek	1,620	0.1%
Russian	8,309	0.8%
Polish	2,815	0.3%
Serbo-Croatian	2,079	0.2%
Other Slavic languages	2,832	0.3%
Armenian	2,760	0.2%
Persian	15,382	1.4%
Gujarati	1,823	0.2%
Hindi	7,298	0.7%
Urdu	2,520	0.2%
Other Indic languages	4,117	0.4%
Other Indo-European languages	5,237	0.5%
Total	91,965	8.3%

Other Languages	Number	Percent of People Who Don't Speak English at Home
Navajo	21	0.0%
Other Native North American languages	414	0.0%
Hungarian	1,363	0.1%
Arabic	21,968	2.0%
Hebrew	1,421	0.1%
African languages	12,538	1.1%
Other and unspecified languages	10,506	0.9%
Total	48,231	4.4%