Population & Geography
New York City (NYC) Spoken Languages and Ancestry
Population 5 Years and Over
Population 5 Years and Over
Languages Spoken at Home
2019* Estimates
Speak only English
4040918
Spanish:
1863816
French (incl. Cajun):
71783
Haitian:
102160
Italian:
56258
Portuguese:
19344
German:
17845
Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages:
106590
Greek:
38056
Russian:
193119
Polish:
44737
Serbo-Croatian:
17324
Ukrainian or other Slavic languages:
15544
Armenian:
3633
Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari):
10744
Gujarati:
6467
Hindi:
32725
Urdu:
43309
Punjabi:
24772
Bengali:
117428
Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages:
17935
Other Indo-European languages:
47983
Telugu:
2758
Tamil:
6046
Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages:
9119
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese):
498683
Japanese:
17901
Korean:
63683
Hmong:
245
Vietnamese:
12475
Khmer:
3254
Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages:
6956
Other languages of Asia:
30571
Tagalog (incl. Filipino):
52724
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages:
5720
Arabic:
71197
Hebrew:
37007
Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages:
9626
Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa:
69267
Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa:
3099
Navajo:
0
Other Native languages of North America:
675
Other and unspecified languages:
22066
Note:*Latest annual estimate available.
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Age & Sex Distribution
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Source:
U.S. Census Bureau - American Community Survey (Table B16001)