How many people in Utah speak a language other than English at home?
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In 2024, about 541,400 people age 5 and older in Utah spoke a language other than English at home. That's about one in 6 Utahns. Excluding English, Spanish is the most common language spoken in Utah homes. About 70.1% of people speaking a non-English language spoke Spanish.
541K
people speak a language other than English at home (2024)
70.1%
Spanish's share of non-English language speakers (2024)
More than half of all people in Utah speaking a non-English language at home spoke one of 42 languages: Spanish, Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese), or Portuguese.
Spanish is the most-spoken non-English language in Utah homes, followed by Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese) and Portuguese.
People aged 5 or older who speak a language other than English at home, by language group (2024)
In Utah, 541,400 people age 5 and older spoke a language other than English at home in 2024, or 16.5% of the state’s 3.27 million residents age 5 and older. That was below the national share of 23%, and Spanish was the most common non-English language in the state, spoken by 379,400 people, or 70.1% of non-English speakers.
Based on data from 2024, Utah's residents were less likely to speak a non-English language at home than the population nationwide. While about 1% of the US's 5+ population lived in Utah, the state was home to 0.73% of the nation's non-English speakers — a sign that Utah had a disproportionately smaller share of non-English households.
The non-English languages most concentrated in Utah were Navajo (3.7% of all US speakers), Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages (2.4%), and Portuguese (1.5%).
In Utah, no non-English language had its largest US-speaking population in the state. Navajo was the language for which Utah accounted for the largest share of US speakers, at 3.7%.
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Navajo is the language for which Utah 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 Utah whose primary language at home is not English increased 17.5%. The number of people speaking Spanish — the largest of the Census Bureau's four broad language categories in Utah — grew 20.9% during this period.
In Utah, the number of people speaking Spanish at home grew 20.9% since 2018
Non-English language speakers ages 5 and older at home, by broad language group
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