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Census: English on Decline in USA
New data released by the U.S. Census Department show that
the number of Americans who do not speak English has soared in the past ten years.
Eighteen percent of Americans do not speak English in their own homes. By their own acknowledgement, over 17 million of these Americans do not speak English very well. Nearly seven million speak little or no English.
These statistics come from the U.S. Census 2000 Supplementary Survey of U.S. households. The data include only persons age five and older, and living in households. (This excludes such housing as universities, prisons and military bases.)
The data show that the portion of Americans who speak poorly or not at all grew nearly sixty percent since 1990. Several states saw their English-deficient population triple, including Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah. Missouri's grew nearly five fold.
Eleven millions Californians, or two out of five residents, do not speak English in their home;
this population grew by more than 2.3 million. One out of nine Californians can now understand little or no English. Texas ranked second behind California, with over 5.4 million people who do not speak English in their homes, followed by New York (4.4 million) and Florida (3 million). Even these numbers may reflect a serious undercount of the illegal immigrant population.
The vast majority of non-English speakers (75%) live in just seven states, Arizona, California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Texas and Illinois, all of which commonly taught immigrant children in foreign languages as of 1998. (California and Arizona have since passed referenda requiring English immersion in many circumstances.)

% of residents who do not speak English in home:
Red: far above national average
White: near national average
Blue: below national Average

Portion of non-English speakers:
Red: Increasing faster than average
Pink: Increasing slower than average
White: nearly steady
Blue: Falling
StatePopulation over 5. Persons who do not speak English in home, 2000 % of total population
Don't speak English well, 2000 % of total population % increase, 1990-2000
US Total: 254,762,734 41,601,418 16.3% 10,513,832 4.1% 57.6% Alabama 4,032,177 122,131
3.0% 33,114 0.8%
147.8% Alaska 564,976 64,134
11.4% 9,838 1.7%
28.9% Arizona 4,653,563 1,069,268
23.0% 302,126 6.5%
146.8% Arkansas 2,421,122 87,142
3.6% 21,476 0.9%
126.6% California 30,591,878 10,938,446
35.8% 3,261,020 10.7%
35.2% Colorado 3,890,345 506,461
13.0% 135,086 3.5%
204.3% Connecticut 3,078,965 521,763
16.9% 89,791 2.9%
24.2% Delaware 710,047 58,972
8.3% 11,219 1.6%
106.3% D.C. 503,809 71,543
14.2% 17,809 3.5%
22.3% Florida 14,666,086 3,004,797
20.5% 759,654 5.2%
50.0% Georgia 7,364,707 585,207
7.9% 180,703 2.5%
272.0% Hawaii 1,100,761 281,204
25.5% 52,898 4.8%
11.2% Idaho 1,174,051 97,231
8.3% 25,182 2.1%
119.5% Illinois 11,229,684 2,020,772
18.0% 514,585 4.6%
67.0% Indiana 5,486,661 405,028
7.4% 55,929 1.0%
91.5% Iowa 2,639,397 144,288
5.5% 43,819 1.7%
226.4% Kansas 2,425,262 145,982
6.0% 20,578 0.8%
2.4% Kentucky 3,664,001 127,405
3.5% 19,904 0.5%
70.4% Louisiana 4,027,441 336,840
8.4% 41,441 1.0%
2.4% Maine 1,170,632 88,243
7.5% 5,131 0.4%
-28.2% Maryland 4,814,882 583,498
12.1% 106,961 2.2%
72.0% Massachusetts 5,737,317 1,010,284
17.6% 232,191 4.0%
46.2% Michigan 9,013,621 716,414
7.9% 105,067 1.2%
50.4% Minnesota 4,456,486 371,122
8.3% 80,041 1.8%
159.4% Mississippi 2,555,633 73,214
2.9% 10,483 0.4%
-55.2% Missouri 5,050,366 253,805
5.0% 43,849 0.9%
383.0% Montana 827,250 39,091
4.7% 3,646 0.4%
18.5% Nebraska 1,545,682 100,714
6.5% 31,800 2.1%
276.3% Nevada 1,830,618 382,791
20.9% 85,006 4.6%
196.3% New Hampshire 1,123,780 83,817
7.5% 7,931 0.7%
5.0% New Jersey 7,659,421 1,861,584
24.3% 411,455 5.4%
47.9% New Mexico 1,655,682 563,723
34.0% 69,790 4.2%
24.3% New York 17,154,669 4,415,063
25.7% 1,079,854 6.3%
30.4% No Carolina 7,262,195 480,010
6.6% 158,769 2.2%
323.6% No Dakota 581,251 32,737
5.6% 2,933 0.5%
-3.3% Ohio 10,308,865 549,341
5.3% 78,991 0.8%
20.5% Oklahoma 3,116,855 210,187
6.7% 47,800 1.5%
133.9% Oregon 3,118,114 291,922
9.4% 89,222 2.9%
135.2% Pennsylvania 11,134,983 840,164
7.5% 158,093 1.4%
46.3% Rhode Island 947,289 169,542
17.9% 42,762 4.5%
35.5% So Carolina 3,625,224 174,833
4.8% 48,826 1.3%
245.2% So Dakota 677,784 32,525
4.8% 4,729 0.7%
21.6% Tennesee 5,169,948 238,616
4.6% 57,124 1.1%
210.5% Texas 18,707,080 5,424,068
29.0% 1,545,121 8.3%
90.3% Utah 1,990,223 227,074
11.4% 46,931 2.4%
197.4% Vermont 554,145 28,191
5.1% 2,903 0.5%
18.1% Virginia 6,381,599 660,535
10.4% 125,451 2.0%
81.2% Washington 5,382,867 689,101
12.8% 163,347 3.0%
111.0% West Virginia 1,669,364 37,318
2.2% 3,975 0.2% -
25.7% Wisconsin 4,864,322 358,461
7.4% 64,906 1.3%
79.6% Wyoming 449,654 24,816
5.5% 2,572 0.6% -
2.1% (Source: ProEnglish analysis of US Census Department data)