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Share speaking only English at home: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share of residents who speak only English at home (%, derived). All 49 states and District of Columbia with data in Languages spoken at home by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

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

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National value: 77.1 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 80 %
RI 77.1 %
DE 84.4 %
CT 76.5 %
NJ 66 %
MD 77.8 %
MA 73.7 %
VT 94.5 %
NH 91.6 %

Lowest: 55.1 to 75 %
Group 2: 75 to 84.2 %
Group 3: 84.2 to 89.1 %
Group 4: 89.1 to 92.1 %
Highest: 92.1 to 97.2 %

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. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Wyoming is blank: the Census Bureau did not publish this detailed table for it in the 2025 1-year release.


1	West Virginia	97.2
2	Montana	96
3	Mississippi	95.3
4	Vermont	94.5
5	Maine	93.7
6	Alabama	93.2
6	South Dakota	93.2
8	Missouri	93.1
9	Kentucky	92.4
10	North Dakota	92.1
11	Louisiana	91.6
11	New Hampshire	91.6
13	Arkansas	91.2
14	Ohio	91.1
15	South Carolina	90.6
16	Wisconsin	90.5
17	Tennessee	90.4
18	Iowa	89.8
19	Idaho	89.1
19	Michigan	89.1
21	Indiana	88.9
22	Oklahoma	88.4
23	Minnesota	87.2
24	Kansas	87.1
25	Pennsylvania	86.7
26	Nebraska	86.2
27	North Carolina	85.3
28	Alaska	84.6
29	Delaware	84.4
30	Oregon	84.2
31	Georgia	83.9
32	Colorado	83.1
33	Utah	83
34	Virginia	81.5
35	District of Columbia	80
36	Maryland	77.8
37	Washington	77.5
38	Rhode Island	77.1
39	Connecticut	76.5
40	Illinois	75
41	Hawaii	74.9
42	Arizona	74.7
43	Massachusetts	73.7
44	Nevada	69.8
45	New Mexico	69.4
46	Florida	68.6
47	New York	67.9
48	New Jersey	66
49	Texas	64.6
50	California	55.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table C16001: Language spoken at home for the population 5 years and over. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by share of residents who speak only English at home (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2025 1-year estimates, Table C16001: Language spoken at home for the population 5 years and over; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-share-of-residents-who-speak-only-english-at-home/

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