How many people in Indiana speak a language other than English at home?
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In 2024, about 731,900 people age 5 and older in Indiana spoke a language other than English at home. That's about one in 9 Hoosiers. Excluding English, Spanish is the most common language spoken in Indiana homes. About 52.1% of people speaking a non-English language spoke Spanish.
732K
people speak a language other than English at home (2024)
52.1%
Spanish's share of non-English language speakers (2024)
More than half of all people in Indiana speaking a non-English language at home spoke one of three languages: Spanish, German, or Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages.
Spanish is the most-spoken non-English language in Indiana homes, followed by German and Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages.
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, Indiana's residents were less likely to speak a non-English language at home than the population nationwide. While about 2% of the US's 5+ population lived in Indiana, the state was home to 0.99% of the nation's non-English speakers — a sign that Indiana had a disproportionately smaller share of non-English households.
The non-English languages most concentrated in Indiana were Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages (5.8% of all US speakers), German (4.6%), and Other languages of Asia (4.4%).
In Indiana, no non-English language had its largest US-speaking population in the state. Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages was the language for which Indiana accounted for the largest share of US speakers, at 5.8%.
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Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages is the language for which Indiana 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 Indiana whose primary language at home is not English increased 31.1%. The number of people speaking Spanish — the largest of the Census Bureau's four broad language categories in Indiana — grew 28.3% during this period.
In Indiana, the number of people speaking Spanish at home grew 28.3% since 2018
Non-English language speakers ages 5 and older at home, by broad language group
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