Indigenous speakers without Spanish (%): Mexican states ranked (2020)
Measure: Indigenous-language speakers who do not speak Spanish (percent). All 32 estados with data in Indigenous households and monolingual speakers by state, Mexico, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2020.
National value: 11.8 (Mexico).
- Lowest: 0.4 to 1.2 %
- Group 2: 1.2 to 2.4 %
- Group 3: 2.4 to 4.3 %
- Group 4: 4.3 to 10 %
- Highest: 10 to 27.2 %
Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.
| 1 | Chiapas | 27.2 |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Guerrero | 21.6 |
| 3 | Durango | 18 |
| 4 | Nayarit | 16.6 |
| 5 | Oaxaca | 11 |
| 6 | Chihuahua | 10.7 |
| 7 | Jalisco | 10 |
| 8 | Hidalgo | 7.9 |
| 9 | Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave | 7.2 |
| 10 | Puebla | 6.6 |
| 11 | Michoacán de Ocampo | 5.7 |
| 12 | Yucatán | 4.7 |
| 13 | San Luis Potosí | 4.3 |
| 14 | Zacatecas | 3.7 |
| 15 | Colima | 3.6 |
| 15 | Quintana Roo | 3.6 |
| 17 | Sinaloa | 2.8 |
| 18 | Baja California | 2.7 |
| 18 | Campeche | 2.7 |
| 20 | Morelos | 2.4 |
| 21 | Querétaro | 1.9 |
| 22 | Sonora | 1.8 |
| 23 | Guanajuato | 1.6 |
| 23 | Tlaxcala | 1.6 |
| 25 | México | 1.3 |
| 26 | Baja California Sur | 1.2 |
| 27 | Tabasco | 1.1 |
| 28 | Aguascalientes | 1 |
| 29 | Ciudad de México | 0.8 |
| 30 | Coahuila de Zaragoza | 0.7 |
| 31 | Tamaulipas | 0.6 |
| 32 | Nuevo León | 0.4 |
Source: INEGI, Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020, Principales resultados por localidad (ITER), national and state totals. Reference period: 2020.
Cite this ranking
Mexican estados ranked by Indigenous-language speakers who do not speak Spanish (percent) (2020). Data: INEGI, Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020, Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020, Principales resultados por localidad (ITER), state totals; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/mx-estados-by-indigenous-language-speakers-who-do-not-speak-spanish-share/