How many people in Colorado speak a language other than English at home?
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In 2024, about 941,900 people age 5 and older in Colorado spoke a language other than English at home. That's about one in 6 Coloradans. Excluding English, Spanish is the most common language spoken in Colorado homes. About 67.5% of people speaking a non-English language spoke Spanish.
942K
people speak a language other than English at home (2024)
67.5%
Spanish's share of non-English language speakers (2024)
More than half of all people in Colorado speaking a non-English language at home spoke one of three languages: Spanish, Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese), or German.
Spanish is the most-spoken non-English language in Colorado homes, followed by Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) and German.
People aged 5 or older who speak a language other than English at home, by language group (2024)
The ACS asks people if they speak a language other than English at home, what that language is, and how well they speak English. In Colorado, 941,900 people age 5 and older, or 16.7%, speak a language other than English at home, compared with 23% nationally; Spanish is the most common non-English language, spoken by 635,800 people, or 67.5% of non-English speakers.
Based on data from 2024, Colorado's residents were less likely to speak a non-English language at home than the population nationwide. While about 1.8% of the US's 5+ population lived in Colorado, the state was home to 1.3% of the nation's non-English speakers — a sign that Colorado had a disproportionately smaller share of non-English households.
The non-English languages most concentrated in Colorado were Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages (2.7% of all US speakers), German (2.6%), and Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages (2.4%).
In Colorado, no non-English language had its largest US-speaking population in the state. Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages was the language for which Colorado accounted for the largest share of US speakers, at 2.7%.
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Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages is the language for which Colorado makes up the largest share of US speakers
State share of national speakers by language, ages 5 and older (2024)
Population change
The US population gained 1.78 million people between 2024 and 2025.
Between 2018 and 2024, the number of people in Colorado whose primary language at home is not English increased 5.0%. The number of people speaking Spanish — the largest of the Census Bureau's four broad language categories in Colorado — grew 2.1% during this period.
In Colorado, the number of people speaking Spanish at home grew 2.1% since 2018
Non-English language speakers ages 5 and older at home, by broad language group
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