How many people in Texas speak a language other than English at home?
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In 2024, about 10.5M people age 5 and older in Texas spoke a language other than English at home. That's about one in 3 Texans. Excluding English, Spanish is the most common language spoken in Texas homes. About 79% of people speaking a non-English language spoke Spanish.
10.5M
people speak a language other than English at home (2024)
79.0%
Spanish's share of non-English language speakers (2024)
More than half of all people in Texas speaking a non-English language at home spoke one of three languages: Spanish, Vietnamese, or Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese).
Spanish is the most-spoken non-English language in Texas homes, followed by Vietnamese and Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese).
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, Texas's residents were more likely to speak a non-English language at home than the population nationwide. While about 9.1% of the US's 5+ population lived in Texas, the state was home to 14.1% of the nation's non-English speakers — a sign that Texas had a disproportionately larger share of non-English households.
The non-English languages most concentrated in Texas were Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages (21.2% of all US speakers), Telugu (20.8%), and Urdu (19.3%).
In Texas, the state had the biggest population of speakers of 5 non-English languages, including Telugu (126090 residents or 20.8% of US speakers), Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa (121632 or 15.7%), Urdu (108191 or 19.3%), Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages (68892 or 21.2%), and Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa (56870 or 14.1%).
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Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages is the language for which Texas 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 Texas whose primary language at home is not English increased 9.6%. The number of people speaking Spanish — the largest of the Census Bureau's four broad language categories in Texas — grew 5.6% during this period.
In Texas, the number of people speaking Spanish at home grew 5.6% since 2018
Non-English language speakers ages 5 and older at home, by broad language group
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