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One-in-Five Speak Spanish in Four States
URL: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/012634.html

Description:
This U.S. Census Bureau release from September 2008 announced that " [a]t least one-in-five residents of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas spoke Spanish at home in 2007, according to new American Community Survey data." Summarizes related findings on the U.S. foreign-born population (California (27.4 percent), New York (21.8), New Jersey (19.9), Nevada (19.4), and Florida (18.9) had the highest percentages) such as speaking a language other than English at home.

LII Topics: Languages, Spanish

Publisher:
U.S. Census Bureau

LII Database Information:
Record 26968 created by Jennifer English on 09/26/2008
Last modification on 09/30/2008
Published: 10/30/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26968

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