Thursday, February 16, 2017

Top 15 Non-English Languages Spoken in North Carolina (2010 - in percentage)

As of 2010, 89.66% (7,750,904) of North Carolina residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 6.93% (598,756) spoke Spanish, 0.32% (27,310) French, 0.27% (23,204) German, and Chinese (which includes Mandarin) was spoken as a main language by 0.27% (23,072) of the population over the age of five. In total, 10.34% (893,735) of North Carolina's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English.



Reference 1: Percentage of population (as of 2010)[72].

Reference 2: Spanish, French, German, Chinese (including Mandarin), Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean, Tagalog, Hindi, Gujarati, Russian, and Hmong (tied), Italian and Japanese (tied) and Cherokee.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina