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“More than 1 in 5 people (22%) age 5 and older in the United States spoke a language other than English at home during the five-year period from 2017 to 2021, according to new data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The newly released table package — Detailed Languages Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over: 2017–2021 — provides data on over 500 individual languages and language groups spoken across the country during this time. … Other highlights:
- Among people who spoke a language other than English, approximately 61% spoke Spanish and 78% spoke an Indo-European language (including, among others, Spanish, German, French and Italian).
- Sixty-two percent of those who spoke a language other than English at home also spoke English ‘very well.’
- In Maine and Vermont, French was the most common language other than English.”
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