How many people in Georgia speak a language other than English at home?
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In 2024, about 1.72M people age 5 and older in Georgia spoke a language other than English at home. That's about one in 6 Georgians. Excluding English, Spanish is the most common language spoken in Georgia homes. About 56.5% of people speaking a non-English language spoke Spanish.
1.72M
people speak a language other than English at home (2024)
56.5%
Spanish's share of non-English language speakers (2024)
More than half of all people in Georgia speaking a non-English language at home spoke one of three languages: Spanish, Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese), or Korean.
Spanish is the most-spoken non-English language in Georgia homes, followed by Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) and Korean.
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 Georgia, 1.72 million people age 5 and older spoke a language other than English at home in 2024, accounting for 16.3% of the state’s population age 5 and older, compared with 23% nationally.
Based on data from 2024, Georgia's residents were less likely to speak a non-English language at home than the population nationwide. While about 3.3% of the US's 5+ population lived in Georgia, the state was home to 2.3% of the nation's non-English speakers — a sign that Georgia had a disproportionately smaller share of non-English households.
The non-English languages most concentrated in Georgia were Gujarati (7.1% of all US speakers), Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa (5.4%), and Korean (5.2%).
In Georgia, no non-English language had its largest US-speaking population in the state. Gujarati was the language for which Georgia accounted for the largest share of US speakers, at 7.1%.
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Gujarati is the language for which Georgia 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 Georgia whose primary language at home is not English increased 24.2%. The number of people speaking Spanish — the largest of the Census Bureau's four broad language categories in Georgia — grew 22.6% during this period.
In Georgia, the number of people speaking Spanish at home grew 22.6% since 2018
Non-English language speakers ages 5 and older at home, by broad language group
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