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Share speaking Germanic languages at home: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Share speaking German or other West Germanic languages 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: 0.45 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 0.47 %
RI 0.21 %
DE 0.36 %
CT 0.21 %
NJ 0.33 %
MD 0.34 %
MA 0.36 %
VT 0.44 %
NH 0.37 %

Lowest: 0.11 to 0.24 %
Group 2: 0.24 to 0.33 %
Group 3: 0.33 to 0.37 %
Group 4: 0.37 to 0.52 %
Highest: 0.52 to 1.48 %

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	New York	1.48
2	Ohio	0.92
3	Pennsylvania	0.9
4	Indiana	0.84
5	South Dakota	0.69
6	Iowa	0.66
6	Wisconsin	0.66
8	Alaska	0.65
9	Montana	0.61
10	North Dakota	0.52
11	Michigan	0.51
12	Missouri	0.49
13	District of Columbia	0.47
14	Colorado	0.45
14	Kentucky	0.45
16	Kansas	0.44
16	Vermont	0.44
18	South Carolina	0.39
19	New Hampshire	0.37
19	Oregon	0.37
19	Utah	0.37
22	Delaware	0.36
22	Massachusetts	0.36
22	Minnesota	0.36
25	Florida	0.35
25	Virginia	0.35
27	Illinois	0.34
27	Maryland	0.34
29	Idaho	0.33
29	New Jersey	0.33
31	Washington	0.32
32	Maine	0.28
33	California	0.27
33	New Mexico	0.27
33	Texas	0.27
36	Arizona	0.26
36	Georgia	0.26
36	Nevada	0.26
36	Oklahoma	0.26
40	Arkansas	0.24
40	West Virginia	0.24
42	North Carolina	0.23
43	Tennessee	0.22
44	Alabama	0.21
44	Connecticut	0.21
44	Rhode Island	0.21
47	Hawaii	0.19
48	Mississippi	0.16
49	Nebraska	0.15
50	Louisiana	0.11

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.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by share speaking German or other West Germanic languages 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-speaking-german-or-other-west-germanic-languages-at-home/

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