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Other Indo-European households with limited English

Measure: Share of other Indo-European-language 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: 14.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 5.1 %
RI 14.3 %
DE 10 %
CT 17.3 %
NJ 15.6 %
MD 10.9 %
MA 16.2 %
VT 10.1 %
NH 6.9 %

Lowest: 1.8 to 6.9 %
Group 2: 6.9 to 9.1 %
Group 3: 9.1 to 11.5 %
Group 4: 11.5 to 15.2 %
Highest: 15.2 to 21.4 %

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	Iowa	21.4
2	New York	20.6
3	Indiana	19.2
4	Nebraska	18.1
5	Connecticut	17.3
6	Ohio	16.8
7	Florida	16.6
7	Illinois	16.6
9	Massachusetts	16.2
10	New Jersey	15.6
11	Alaska	15.2
11	North Dakota	15.2
13	California	14.8
14	Pennsylvania	14.7
15	Kentucky	14.5
16	Rhode Island	14.3
17	Washington	14.1
18	Oregon	13.5
19	Maine	13.3
20	Michigan	13.1
21	North Carolina	11.5
22	Minnesota	11.3
23	Wisconsin	11.2
24	Nevada	11.1
25	Tennessee	11
26	Maryland	10.9
27	New Mexico	10.6
28	Missouri	10.4
29	Vermont	10.1
30	Delaware	10
31	Georgia	9.1
31	Texas	9.1
33	South Carolina	9
34	Virginia	8.9
35	Colorado	8.4
36	Arizona	8.2
36	Louisiana	8.2
38	Kansas	7.7
39	Oklahoma	7.4
40	Arkansas	7.2
41	Alabama	6.9
41	Mississippi	6.9
41	New Hampshire	6.9
44	Utah	6.2
45	Wyoming	5.6
46	District of Columbia	5.1
47	Hawaii	4.1
48	South Dakota	3.9
49	West Virginia	3.8
50	Idaho	3.1
51	Montana	1.8

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 other Indo-European-language 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-other-indo-european-language-households-that-are-limited-english-speaking/

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