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Limited English-speaking households: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of households that are limited English-speaking (%). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Limited English-speaking households by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 4.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 2.1 %
RI 4.4 %
DE 2.9 %
CT 5 %
NJ 7.3 %
MD 3.5 %
MA 5.7 %
VT 0.5 %
NH 1.2 %

Lowest: 0.2 to 1.4 %
Group 2: 1.4 to 2.1 %
Group 3: 2.1 to 2.6 %
Group 4: 2.6 to 4.4 %
Highest: 4.4 to 8.2 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	California	8.2
2	New York	7.8
3	Florida	7.3
3	New Jersey	7.3
5	Texas	6.3
6	Massachusetts	5.7
7	Nevada	5.5
8	New Mexico	5.2
9	Connecticut	5
9	Hawaii	5
11	Rhode Island	4.4
12	Illinois	4.3
13	Arizona	4
14	Washington	3.9
15	Maryland	3.5
16	Nebraska	3.2
17	Delaware	2.9
18	Pennsylvania	2.8
19	Kansas	2.7
19	Utah	2.7
21	Oregon	2.6
22	Georgia	2.5
22	Virginia	2.5
24	Alaska	2.4
24	Colorado	2.4
24	North Carolina	2.4
27	District of Columbia	2.1
27	Indiana	2.1
27	Iowa	2.1
27	Louisiana	2.1
27	Minnesota	2.1
27	Oklahoma	2.1
33	Tennessee	1.9
34	Michigan	1.8
34	North Dakota	1.8
34	South Carolina	1.8
37	Kentucky	1.7
38	Ohio	1.6
39	Wisconsin	1.5
40	Arkansas	1.4
40	Idaho	1.4
42	Maine	1.3
43	New Hampshire	1.2
43	South Dakota	1.2
45	Missouri	1.1
46	Alabama	1
46	Wyoming	1
48	Mississippi	0.8
49	Vermont	0.5
50	Montana	0.3
51	West Virginia	0.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1602: Limited English Speaking Households. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of households that are limited English-speaking (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1602; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-households-that-are-limited-english-speaking/

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