How many people in Louisiana speak a language other than English at home?
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In 2024, about 387,300 people age 5 and older in Louisiana spoke a language other than English at home. That's about one in 11 Louisianans. Excluding English, Spanish is the most common language spoken in Louisiana homes. About 57.5% of people speaking a non-English language spoke Spanish.
387K
people speak a language other than English at home (2024)
57.5%
Spanish's share of non-English language speakers (2024)
More than half of all people in Louisiana speaking a non-English language at home spoke one of 41 languages: Spanish, French (incl. Cajun), or Vietnamese.
Spanish is the most-spoken non-English language in Louisiana homes, followed by French (incl. Cajun) and Vietnamese.
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 Louisiana, 9% of residents age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, compared with 23% nationwide. Spanish is the most common non-English language, spoken by 222,700 people, followed by French (including Cajun) at 57,800 and Vietnamese at 27,100.
Based on data from 2024, Louisiana's residents were less likely to speak a non-English language at home than the population nationwide. While about 1.3% of the US's 5+ population lived in Louisiana, the state was home to 0.52% of the nation's non-English speakers — a sign that Louisiana had a disproportionately smaller share of non-English households.
The non-English languages most concentrated in Louisiana were French (incl. Cajun) (4.5% of all US speakers), Vietnamese (1.7%), and Other and unspecified languages (0.8%).
In Louisiana, no non-English language had its largest US-speaking population in the state. French (incl. Cajun) was the language for which Louisiana accounted for the largest share of US speakers, at 4.5%.
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French (incl. Cajun) is the language for which Louisiana 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 Louisiana whose primary language at home is not English increased 16.4%. The number of people speaking Spanish — the largest of the Census Bureau's four broad language categories in Louisiana — grew 43.4% during this period.
In Louisiana, the number of people speaking Spanish at home grew 43.4% since 2018
Non-English language speakers ages 5 and older at home, by broad language group
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