Nearly 65 Million U.S. Residents Spoke a Foreign Language at Home in 2015
Up 5.2 million since 2010 and up 1.5 million since 2014
By Karen Zeigler, Steven A. Camarota October 2016
Steven A. Camarota is the director of research and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the Center for Immigration Studies.
Newly released Census Bureau data shows that a record 64.7 million U.S. residents five years of age and older spoke a language other than English at home in 2015. The number is up 5.2 million since 2010 and increased by 1.5 million in just the last year.1 The largest percentage increases from 2010 to 2015 were for speakers of Arabic, Hindi (an Indian language), and Urdu (Pakistan’s national language). As a share of the population, more than one in five U.S. residents now speaks a foreign language at home.
http://cis.org/Nearly-65-Million-US-Residents-Spoke-a-Foreign-Language-at-Home-in-2015
