How many people in Vermont speak a language other than English at home?
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In 2024, about 36,000 people age 5 and older in Vermont spoke a language other than English at home. That's about one in 17 Vermonters. Excluding English, Spanish is the most common language spoken in Vermont homes. About 22.4% of people speaking a non-English language spoke Spanish.
36K
people speak a language other than English at home (2024)
22.4%
Spanish's share of non-English language speakers (2020–2024)
More than half of all people in Vermont speaking a non-English language at home spoke one of 3 languages: Spanish, French (incl. Cajun), or German.
Spanish is the most-spoken non-English language in Vermont homes, followed by French (incl. Cajun) and German.
People aged 5 or older who speak a language other than English at home, by language group (2020-2024)
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 Vermont in 2024, 36,000 people age 5 and older, or 5.8% of the state’s 621,700 residents in that age group, spoke a language other than English at home, compared with 23% nationally. Spanish was the most common non-English language, spoken by 8,100 people, followed by French (including Cajun) with 7,400 and German with 1,800. Vermont had 40 non-English languages spoken at home, and the state’s non-English speaking population increased by 8.3% from the prior year. 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, Vermont's residents were less likely to speak a non-English language at home than the population nationwide. While about 0.19% of the US's 5+ population lived in Vermont, the state was home to 0.05% of the nation's non-English speakers — a sign that Vermont had a disproportionately smaller share of non-English households.
The non-English languages most concentrated in Vermont were French (incl. Cajun) (0.6% of all US speakers), Serbo-Croatian (0.4%), and Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages (0.4%).
In Vermont, no non-English language had its largest US-speaking population in the state. French (incl. Cajun) was the language for which Vermont accounted for the largest share of US speakers, at 0.6%.
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French (incl. Cajun) is the language for which Vermont 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 Vermont whose primary language at home is not English increased 8.3%. The number of people speaking other Indo-European languages — the largest of the Census Bureau's four broad language categories in Vermont — grew 3.2% during this period.
In Vermont, the number of people speaking Other Indo-European languages at home grew 3.2% since 2018
Non-English language speakers ages 5 and older at home, by broad language group
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