How many people in Florida speak a language other than English at home?
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In 2024, about 7.11M people age 5 and older in Florida spoke a language other than English at home. That's about one in three Floridians. Excluding English, Spanish is the most common language spoken in Florida homes. About 73% of people speaking a non-English language spoke Spanish.
7.11M
people speak a language other than English at home (2024)
73.0%
Spanish's share of non-English language speakers (2024)
More than half of all people in Florida speaking a non-English language at home spoke one of three languages: Spanish, Haitian, or Portuguese.
Spanish is the most-spoken non-English language in Florida homes, followed by Haitian and Portuguese.
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. This data determines bilingual election requirements under the Voting Rights Act and has also been used to allocate funds for students with lower English proficiency.
Based on data from 2024, Florida's residents were more likely to speak a non-English language at home than the population nationwide. While about 6.9% of the US's 5+ population lived in Florida, the state was home to 9.6% of the nation's non-English speakers — a sign that Florida had a disproportionately larger share of non-English households.
The non-English languages most concentrated in Florida were Haitian (49.2% of all US speakers), Portuguese (19.1%), and Other and unspecified languages (12.2%).
In Florida, the state had the biggest population of speakers of 2 non-English languages, including Haitian (512329 residents or 49.2% of US speakers), and Other and unspecified languages (45458 or 12.2% of US speakers).
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Haitian is the language for which Florida 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 Florida whose primary language at home is not English increased 18.6%. The number of people speaking Spanish — the largest of the Census Bureau's four broad language categories in Florida — grew 16.2% during this period.
In Florida, the number of people speaking Spanish at home grew 16.2% since 2018
Non-English language speakers ages 5 and older at home, by broad language group
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