Languages spoken in Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI

In October 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau released the "2009-2013 American Community Survey" which provides information on "languages spoken at home" and "ability to speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over" for the United States as a whole, states including Puerto Rico and Washington D.C., selected counties, and selected cities and urban areas. The following provides aggregated survey information on languages spoken in Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis [WI]

Table showing languages spoken in Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI

Population 5 years and over
Speak only English at home
Speak a language other than English at home
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

French (incl. Patois, Cajun)

French Creole

Italian

Portuguese (incl. Portuguese Creole)

German (incl. Luxembourgian)

Yiddish

Other West Germanic languages

Scandinavian languages

Greek

Russian

Polish

Serbo-Croatian languages

Other Slavic languages

Other Indic languages

Other Indo-European languages

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES

Chinese (incl. Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages)

Other Asian languages

Tagalog

Other Pacific Island languages

ALL OTHER LANGUAGES

Navajo

Other Native North American languages

Other and unspecified languages

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BY COUNTY
BY CITY

Language	Number of speakers	Margin of Error	Speak English less than "Very Well"	Margin of Error
African	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Afrikaans	155	106	(B)	-
Albanian	1,175	364	695	236
American Indian	30	30	(B)	-
Amharic	185	94	(D)	(D)
Arawakian	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bantu	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Bengali	285	158	65	55
Berber	35	57	(D)	(D)
Bisayan	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Bulgarian	160	142	55	52
Burmese	540	289	450	273
Cantonese	330	170	165	118
Chamorro	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Chinese	4,055	621	2,100	463
Croatian	585	191	125	67
Cushite	860	378	405	204
Czech	205	100	50	45
Dakota	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Danish	85	74	(D)	(D)
Dravidian	45	46	35	44
Dutch	440	146	65	66
Efik	80	92	(D)	(D)
Finnish	115	74	(D)	(D)
Formosan	45	46	30	39
French	4,210	572	545	158
Fulani	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
German	9,205	619	1,700	254
Haida	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Hawaiian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Ilocano	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
India nec3	175	181	65	56
Indonesian	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Irish Gaelic	100	82	(B)	-
Jamaican Creole	45	41	(B)	-
Kannada	320	216	100	91
Karen	225	128	215	124
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba	880	357	175	74
Kuchin	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Latvian	345	116	35	32
Lithuanian	60	58	(D)	(D)
Luxembourgian	30	25	(D)	(D)
Macedonian	60	58	(D)	(D)
Malay	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Malayalam	600	301	80	74
Mandarin	580	229	280	141
Mande	220	151	70	64
Marathi	410	208	100	76
Nepali	290	337	265	334
Nilo-Saharan	15	30	10	17
Nilotic	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Norwegian	360	169	(D)	(D)
Ojibwa	115	95	(B)	-
Oriya	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Oto - Manguen	40	65	(D)	(D)
Ottawa	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Pakistan nec3	210	199	75	77
Panjabi	920	322	400	191
Pashto	65	72	(D)	(D)
Patois	65	49	(D)	(D)
Pennsylvania Dutch	145	145	(B)	-
Portuguese	400	122	100	58
Potawatomi	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Romanian	260	132	50	54
Samoan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sebuano	105	98	55	59
Serbian	1,970	491	890	311
Serbocroatian	800	362	480	280
Shawnee	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Sindhi	160	178	70	107
Sinhalese	165	157	65	73
Slovak	275	113	50	55
Slovene	280	119	105	61
Spanish	102,880	2,094	46,055	1,500
Sudanic	15	23	15	23
Swahili	340	183	155	165
Swedish	160	104	(D)	(D)
Syriac	(D)	(D)	(D)	(D)
Tamil	815	311	65	57
Telugu	1,135	345	235	99
Tongan	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Trukese	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Turkish	595	256	210	119
Ukrainian	280	142	100	66
Uncodable	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Welsh	(D)	(D)	(B)	-
Winnebago	100	57	(D)	(D)
African languages	2,691	555	906	287
Arabic	4,687	857	1,991	453
Armenian	41	33	8	12
Chinese (incl Cantonese, Mandarin, other Chinese languages4)	5,011	692	2,575	488
French (incl Patois, Cajun)	4,278	570	560	161
French Creole	88	66	3	5
German (incl Luxembourgian)	9,238	622	1,704	255
Greek	1,422	335	394	165
Gujarati	603	222	251	118
Hebrew	622	244	26	27
Hindi	2,801	426	479	188
Hmong	10,989	1,020	4,024	630
Hungarian	277	103	73	47
Italian	2,272	350	589	166
Japanese	311	116	83	65
Korean	1,122	282	537	191
Laotian	2,452	662	1,067	316
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian	54	53	30	30
Navajo	32	31	6	8
Other and unspecified languages	211	120	61	50
Other Asian languages	4,267	718	1,390	366
Other Indic languages	2,640	619	1,111	430
Other Indo-European languages	2,053	423	861	247
Other Native North American languages	355	130	76	93
Other Pacific Island languages	249	138	80	59
Other Slavic languages	1,258	287	377	127
Other West Germanic languages	740	244	64	66
Persian	362	153	178	96
Polish	2,493	370	578	196
Population 5 years and over	1,458,254	82	71,776	1,939
Portuguese (incl Portuguese Creole)	400	122	98	58
Russian	3,444	556	1,840	339
Scandinavian languages	605	208	28	30
Serbo-Croatian languages	3,355	635	1,495	458
Tagalog	1,650	401	508	197
Thai	289	163	151	89
Urdu	1,743	458	498	188
Vietnamese	2,005	486	1,022	313
Yiddish	84	60	(B)	-
ALL OTHER LANGUAGES	8,875	1,139	3,139	508
ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES	28,399	944	11,467	734
OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES	39,920	1,774	11,116	899
SPANISH AND SPANISH CREOLE	102,880	2,094	46,054	1,500
Speak a language other than English at home	180,074	2,696	71,776	1,939
Speak only English at home	1,278,180	2,691	(X)	(X)

Notes

Number of speakers and Speak English less than "Very Well": Detailed-language estimates are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Aggregate estimates ("language category" and "language sub-category" entries) are unrounded and appear in table B16001. Detailed-language estimates may not sum to aggregate estimates because of rounding.
Margin of Error and Margin of Error: Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted roughly as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data. The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.
(D): Data withheld to avoid disclosure.
(B): Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute an estimate.
(X): Question does not apply.
-: Either no sample observations or too few sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the margin of error. A statistical test is not appropriate.
3 N.E.C. stands for not elsewhere classified. These are languages where respondents indicated they spoke either Indian or Pakistan. For Indian, it cannot be determined if the respondent spoke a native American language or spoke a language from India. For Pakistan, respondents wrote in Pakistan but it cannot be determined which one of the languages spoken in Pakistan is actually being spoken. To distinguish these languages, n.e.c. is used to indicated they are not classified in any other language code.
This category includes literal write-ins of Chinese as well as Hakka, Kan, Hsiang, Cantonese, Mandarin, Fuchow, Formosan, and Wu.

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