Languages Spoken in Texas: Map and County Data
Languages Spoken Across Texas Counties
Share of the population age 5+ speaking a language other than English at home, by county.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011–2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, about 8.6 million people age 5 and older in Texas speak a language other than English at home, representing 35.0% of the state’s population age 5+. Spanish is the most spoken non-English language, with about 7.3 million speakers, followed by Vietnamese and Chinese.
Most Spoken Non-English Languages in Texas
The most spoken non-English languages in Texas are Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese. Spanish is spoken at home by about 7.3 million people, or roughly 29.5% of the state’s population age 5+.
#1 non-English language
Spanish
About 7.3 million speakers
#2 non-English language
Vietnamese
About 202,000 speakers
#3 non-English language
Chinese
About 155,000 speakers
Key Language Findings for Texas
About 8.6 million people in Texas speak a language other than English at home, representing 35.0% of residents age 5 and older.
The most spoken non-English languages in Texas are Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese.
Spanish is the most spoken non-English language in Texas, with about 7.3 million speakers, representing roughly 29.5% of residents age 5 and older.
Harris County has the largest Spanish-speaking population in Texas, with about 1.4 million speakers.
Harris County has the largest population speaking a language other than English at home, with more than 1.7 million residents.
Spanish is the leading non-English language in every one of the 254 Texas counties, and accounts for about 84% of all residents who speak a language other than English at home.
How Language Use Varies Across Texas Counties
Language patterns differ sharply by county. With Spanish first everywhere, county-level rankings are most revealing in second and third place, where large local communities speak Vietnamese, Chinese, other Asian languages, German, Tagalog / Filipino, African languages, Urdu, and other languages.
Harris County has the largest number of residents speaking a language other than English at home, while Starr County has the highest share relative to its age-5+ population, at 96.1%.
English Proficiency and Language Access in Texas
Speaking a language other than English at home does not necessarily mean someone has limited English proficiency. Census table B16001 also separates language groups by whether residents report speaking English "very well" or less than "very well," providing additional context for organizations planning language access services. For a broader look at limited English proficiency across the country, explore Boostlingo's LEP State Map.
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| County | % Other Language | Other-Language Speakers | #1 Language | #2 Language | #3 Language | #4 Language | #5 Language | #6 Language | Population Age 5+ |
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| Starr County | 54,154 | Spanish 54,051 | Tagalog / Filipino 73 | Persian 13 | Korean 13 | Other / unspecified 4 | — | 56,360 | |
| Maverick County | 48,292 | Spanish 47,778 | Other Native North American 254 | Chinese 201 | Hindi 49 | French 5 | Tagalog / Filipino 5 | 51,565 | |
| Webb County | 214,877 | Spanish 213,508 | Tagalog / Filipino 255 | Other Indic 246 | Japanese 201 | Hindi 146 | Korean 135 | 236,875 | |
| Zapata County | 11,358 | Spanish 11,356 | Italian 2 | — | — | — | — | 12,747 | |
| Presidio County | 5,830 | Spanish 5,542 | Tagalog / Filipino 109 | Korean 105 | Polish 27 | French 25 | German 21 | 6,751 | |
| Hidalgo County | 626,786 | Spanish 618,351 | Tagalog / Filipino 3,219 | French 788 | Korean 665 | Japanese 512 | Chinese 510 | 740,142 | |
| Zavala County | 8,597 | Spanish 8,578 | Arabic 15 | Other / unspecified 4 | — | — | — | 10,960 | |
| Hudspeth County | 2,368 | Spanish 2,342 | Hindi 20 | Tagalog / Filipino 6 | — | — | — | 3,109 | |
| Cameron County | 284,208 | Spanish 280,329 | Arabic 600 | Tagalog / Filipino 598 | French 270 | Urdu 262 | Chinese 260 | 381,314 | |
| Jim Hogg County | 3,634 | Spanish 3,610 | French 24 | — | — | — | — | 4,927 | |
| El Paso County | 550,883 | Spanish 534,735 | German 3,026 | Korean 1,620 | Tagalog / Filipino 1,264 | Chinese 1,248 | French 1,227 | 763,568 | |
| Val Verde County | 32,187 | Spanish 31,777 | German 149 | Arabic 66 | French 45 | Japanese 41 | Tagalog / Filipino 34 | 44,855 | |
| Brooks County | 4,674 | Spanish 4,624 | Korean 42 | Persian 6 | African languages 2 | — | — | 6,553 | |
| Dimmit County | 6,824 | Spanish 6,775 | Tagalog / Filipino 23 | German 14 | Arabic 12 | — | — | 9,696 | |
| La Salle County | 4,489 | Spanish 4,483 | Other / unspecified 6 | — | — | — | — | 6,557 | |
| Culberson County | 1,437 | Spanish 1,426 | French 11 | — | — | — | — | 2,120 | |
| Reeves County | 8,330 | Spanish 8,172 | Tagalog / Filipino 35 | Portuguese 26 | Korean 22 | Chinese 16 | French 13 | 13,277 | |
| Duval County | 6,686 | Spanish 6,672 | Tagalog / Filipino 9 | German 5 | — | — | — | 10,811 | |
| Terrell County | 523 | Spanish 489 | Urdu 25 | German 6 | Italian 3 | — | — | 890 | |
| Frio County | 9,895 | Spanish 9,694 | Italian 41 | African languages 37 | Chinese 32 | Other Slavic 29 | Other Indic 17 | 16,968 | |
| Reagan County | 1,948 | Spanish 1,938 | African languages 10 | — | — | — | — | 3,403 | |
| Kinney County | 1,928 | Spanish 1,844 | Chinese 64 | German 20 | — | — | — | 3,486 | |
| Willacy County | 11,182 | Spanish 11,071 | German 38 | Other Slavic 28 | Vietnamese 14 | French 12 | Russian 9 | 20,616 | |
| Uvalde County | 13,292 | Spanish 12,995 | German 94 | Other Asian 75 | Portuguese 54 | Tagalog / Filipino 42 | Japanese 17 | 24,866 | |
| Garza County | 3,213 | Spanish 3,146 | German 31 | French 14 | Arabic 7 | African languages 7 | Other Indo-European 4 | 6,137 | |
| Pecos County | 7,672 | Spanish 7,567 | German 53 | Korean 12 | African languages 10 | Other Asian 7 | Other Native North American 7 | 14,642 | |
| Gaines County | 8,837 | Spanish 4,759 | German 3,926 | Vietnamese 59 | Other Pacific Island 51 | Gujarati 17 | African languages 16 | 17,023 | |
| Crockett County | 1,746 | Spanish 1,654 | Urdu 51 | German 18 | Italian 13 | African languages 10 | — | 3,393 | |
| Yoakum County | 3,825 | Spanish 3,627 | German 142 | Chinese 22 | Vietnamese 20 | Other Asian 14 | — | 7,443 | |
| Moore County | 10,196 | Spanish 8,559 | Other Asian 993 | African languages 161 | Other Indic 130 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 107 | Arabic 84 | 20,201 | |
| Parmer County | 4,630 | Spanish 4,566 | German 49 | Portuguese 9 | Other Slavic 6 | — | — | 9,188 | |
| Castro County | 3,650 | Spanish 3,576 | Other / unspecified 51 | German 15 | Tagalog / Filipino 6 | Other Pacific Island 2 | — | 7,258 | |
| Edwards County | 894 | Spanish 894 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,799 | |
| Sutton County | 1,802 | Spanish 1,778 | Hebrew 10 | French 7 | Other Indic 7 | — | — | 3,662 | |
| Deaf Smith County | 8,466 | Spanish 8,432 | Tagalog / Filipino 16 | African languages 10 | German 7 | Other West Germanic 1 | — | 17,445 | |
| Jim Wells County | 18,463 | Spanish 18,327 | French 47 | German 46 | Korean 17 | Laotian 12 | Other Indo-European 10 | 38,186 | |
| Bailey County | 3,188 | Spanish 3,177 | Vietnamese 11 | — | — | — | — | 6,596 | |
| Kleberg County | 14,350 | Spanish 13,860 | Chinese 109 | Other Indic 92 | Tagalog / Filipino 72 | Vietnamese 45 | Arabic 42 | 29,696 | |
| Crane County | 2,077 | Spanish 2,077 | — | — | — | — | — | 4,340 | |
| Cochran County | 1,296 | Spanish 1,196 | German 99 | Thai 1 | — | — | — | 2,765 | |
| Ector County | 60,781 | Spanish 58,560 | African languages 285 | Other Pacific Island 261 | Vietnamese 246 | Tagalog / Filipino 235 | French 156 | 136,200 | |
| Ochiltree County | 4,302 | Spanish 4,262 | Other West Germanic 17 | Chinese 9 | Tagalog / Filipino 8 | Korean 6 | — | 9,681 | |
| Kenedy County | 228 | Spanish 227 | Tagalog / Filipino 1 | — | — | — | — | 525 | |
| Jeff Davis County | 943 | Spanish 913 | Thai 12 | German 10 | Other Slavic 3 | Other / unspecified 3 | Tagalog / Filipino 2 | 2,177 | |
| Harris County | 1,728,330 | Spanish 1,375,708 | Vietnamese 75,088 | Chinese 42,304 | African languages 25,522 | Arabic 20,246 | Tagalog / Filipino 19,719 | 4,013,836 | |
| Dallas County | 955,554 | Spanish 788,948 | Vietnamese 27,213 | Other Asian 19,599 | African languages 19,460 | Chinese 13,287 | Hindi 10,691 | 2,290,480 | |
| Winkler County | 2,871 | Spanish 2,841 | Korean 30 | — | — | — | — | 6,959 | |
| Atascosa County | 17,861 | Spanish 17,464 | Arabic 100 | Portuguese 81 | Chinese 65 | German 44 | French 34 | 43,632 | |
| Bexar County | 691,265 | Spanish 627,798 | Tagalog / Filipino 6,538 | German 5,755 | Other Asian 5,228 | Chinese 5,212 | Arabic 5,039 | 1,692,248 | |
| Nueces County | 129,581 | Spanish 121,102 | Tagalog / Filipino 1,273 | German 956 | Vietnamese 819 | Chinese 769 | Korean 532 | 328,091 | |
| Andrews County | 6,021 | Spanish 5,893 | Thai 40 | Serbo-Croatian 23 | Gujarati 23 | Other Native North American 15 | German 8 | 15,288 | |
| Schleicher County | 1,179 | Spanish 1,175 | German 4 | — | — | — | — | 3,009 | |
| Lamb County | 4,883 | Spanish 4,849 | German 17 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 8 | Portuguese 4 | French 3 | Italian 2 | 12,628 | |
| Upton County | 1,174 | Spanish 1,163 | Portuguese 6 | French 5 | — | — | — | 3,037 | |
| Brewster County | 3,333 | Spanish 3,206 | Other Native North American 53 | French 41 | German 13 | Polish 11 | Navajo 9 | 8,689 | |
| Ward County | 3,988 | Spanish 3,932 | Chinese 23 | French 12 | German 9 | Other Native North American 7 | Vietnamese 5 | 10,381 | |
| Fort Bend County | 234,212 | Spanish 110,683 | Chinese 24,334 | Urdu 14,015 | Vietnamese 13,838 | Other Asian 12,942 | Hindi 10,205 | 612,667 | |
| Hansford County | 1,964 | Spanish 1,943 | Tagalog / Filipino 10 | Other Pacific Island 7 | Italian 4 | — | — | 5,153 | |
| Hale County | 12,389 | Spanish 12,200 | Persian 30 | German 28 | Gujarati 21 | Vietnamese 20 | Polish 19 | 32,675 | |
| Titus County | 11,278 | Spanish 10,992 | Other Indic 67 | Korean 62 | Tagalog / Filipino 31 | German 26 | Vietnamese 21 | 29,898 | |
| Floyd County | 2,145 | Spanish 2,128 | Persian 12 | German 5 | — | — | — | 5,739 | |
| Dawson County | 4,703 | Spanish 4,412 | German 149 | Chinese 60 | Greek 25 | African languages 17 | Other Indo-European 11 | 12,599 | |
| Bee County | 11,406 | Spanish 11,080 | African languages 69 | German 34 | Serbo-Croatian 33 | Korean 33 | Vietnamese 29 | 30,756 | |
| Terry County | 4,304 | Spanish 3,699 | German 553 | Other West Germanic 22 | Russian 13 | Hebrew 11 | Arabic 6 | 11,674 | |
| Gonzales County | 6,892 | Spanish 6,723 | German 67 | African languages 34 | Other Slavic 23 | Korean 19 | Hungarian 19 | 18,768 | |
| Concho County | 1,395 | Spanish 1,358 | Vietnamese 32 | French 3 | Other West Germanic 2 | — | — | 3,833 | |
| San Patricio County | 21,903 | Spanish 21,085 | German 115 | Gujarati 111 | French 95 | Japanese 92 | Other Asian 88 | 61,285 | |
| McMullen County | 240 | Spanish 234 | French 6 | — | — | — | — | 695 | |
| Sherman County | 956 | Spanish 944 | Arabic 5 | Italian 3 | German 3 | Other West Germanic 1 | — | 2,897 | |
| Sterling County | 390 | Spanish 390 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,192 | |
| Dallam County | 2,078 | Spanish 1,893 | German 110 | Vietnamese 18 | Gujarati 16 | Russian 15 | Tagalog / Filipino 12 | 6,374 | |
| Martin County | 1,568 | Spanish 1,351 | German 211 | Other West Germanic 3 | Japanese 3 | — | — | 4,830 | |
| Medina County | 14,407 | Spanish 14,063 | German 148 | Japanese 39 | Polish 33 | Thai 30 | Tagalog / Filipino 30 | 44,628 | |
| Travis County | 330,866 | Spanish 253,545 | Chinese 11,501 | Vietnamese 10,772 | Other Asian 7,335 | French 5,342 | Hindi 4,583 | 1,043,280 | |
| Midland County | 43,664 | Spanish 40,087 | Chinese 873 | African languages 449 | German 444 | Other Asian 376 | Vietnamese 254 | 138,739 | |
| Potter County | 35,003 | Spanish 28,814 | Other Asian 2,034 | Vietnamese 1,501 | African languages 770 | Laotian 524 | Tagalog / Filipino 273 | 112,097 | |
| Lynn County | 1,666 | Spanish 1,527 | German 117 | Hindi 8 | Other Native North American 7 | Persian 6 | African languages 1 | 5,350 | |
| Hockley County | 6,716 | Spanish 6,509 | Tagalog / Filipino 51 | German 46 | Korean 29 | French Creole 18 | Portuguese 16 | 21,633 | |
| Caldwell County | 11,463 | Spanish 11,177 | German 54 | Urdu 41 | French 40 | African languages 31 | Other Pacific Island 25 | 36,991 | |
| Crosby County | 1,723 | Spanish 1,718 | German 3 | Other Native North American 2 | — | — | — | 5,586 | |
| Glasscock County | 335 | Spanish 333 | German 2 | — | — | — | — | 1,138 | |
| Hall County | 896 | Spanish 859 | Tagalog / Filipino 20 | Polish 9 | African languages 5 | Korean 3 | — | 3,101 | |
| Calhoun County | 5,820 | Spanish 4,917 | Chinese 404 | Other Asian 207 | Vietnamese 131 | German 68 | Other Indic 47 | 20,181 | |
| Matagorda County | 9,741 | Spanish 8,830 | Vietnamese 369 | German 115 | Tagalog / Filipino 105 | Hindi 72 | African languages 70 | 34,007 | |
| Howard County | 9,658 | Spanish 9,225 | French 105 | Chinese 77 | Other Pacific Island 73 | German 45 | Korean 41 | 33,928 | |
| Karnes County | 3,989 | Spanish 3,804 | Polish 122 | Other Asian 21 | German 17 | Japanese 11 | Other Slavic 7 | 14,083 | |
| Tarrant County | 495,820 | Spanish 371,083 | Vietnamese 27,851 | African languages 12,048 | Arabic 8,405 | French 8,207 | Other Indic 7,378 | 1,772,203 | |
| Refugio County | 1,902 | Spanish 1,859 | German 24 | Other Slavic 6 | Japanese 6 | Arabic 5 | Polish 2 | 6,827 | |
| Live Oak County | 3,119 | Spanish 2,880 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 99 | German 40 | Other Slavic 36 | Vietnamese 25 | Laotian 16 | 11,317 | |
| Scurry County | 4,394 | Spanish 4,288 | Laotian 20 | German 18 | Other Asian 18 | Other Slavic 13 | Korean 13 | 16,000 | |
| Bastrop County | 19,526 | Spanish 17,925 | French 583 | Chinese 310 | German 215 | Tagalog / Filipino 83 | Persian 76 | 72,081 | |
| Collingsworth County | 758 | Spanish 719 | Arabic 14 | German 13 | French 6 | Portuguese 4 | Vietnamese 2 | 2,819 | |
| Mitchell County | 2,305 | Spanish 2,232 | Laotian 33 | Polish 13 | Other Slavic 9 | Tagalog / Filipino 9 | German 5 | 8,696 | |
| Wharton County | 10,137 | Spanish 9,580 | Other Slavic 248 | German 82 | French 68 | Other Indo-European 63 | Portuguese 36 | 38,448 | |
| King County | 67 | Spanish 56 | Other Indo-European 11 | — | — | — | — | 260 | |
| Brazoria County | 79,395 | Spanish 59,528 | Vietnamese 4,118 | Tagalog / Filipino 3,376 | Other Asian 2,208 | African languages 1,633 | Chinese 1,581 | 307,400 | |
| Collin County | 203,464 | Spanish 87,272 | Chinese 20,611 | Other Asian 13,336 | Hindi 9,634 | Vietnamese 8,947 | African languages 8,631 | 804,066 | |
| Menard County | 530 | Spanish 506 | German 24 | — | — | — | — | 2,091 | |
| Swisher County | 1,789 | Spanish 1,761 | Tagalog / Filipino 12 | Japanese 7 | Vietnamese 4 | French 2 | Other Indic 2 | 7,101 | |
| Lipscomb County | 802 | Spanish 768 | Urdu 9 | German 7 | Portuguese 6 | French 4 | Hindi 4 | 3,205 | |
| Tom Green County | 26,277 | Spanish 24,611 | Korean 221 | Vietnamese 203 | Tagalog / Filipino 201 | German 197 | Laotian 146 | 107,237 | |
| Hays County | 40,803 | Spanish 36,722 | German 801 | Chinese 487 | French 467 | Tagalog / Filipino 282 | Other Asian 255 | 166,535 | |
| Hemphill County | 933 | Spanish 890 | Serbo-Croatian 20 | French Creole 9 | French 8 | German 6 | — | 3,816 | |
| Waller County | 10,425 | Spanish 9,818 | German 94 | Thai 87 | Persian 63 | Korean 59 | African languages 54 | 42,816 | |
| Briscoe County | 378 | Spanish 373 | French 4 | African languages 1 | — | — | — | 1,574 | |
| Victoria County | 19,539 | Spanish 17,763 | Vietnamese 346 | Chinese 242 | Scandinavian 227 | Portuguese 152 | German 124 | 83,469 | |
| Brazos County | 44,953 | Spanish 31,704 | Chinese 3,568 | Korean 1,399 | Other Indic 898 | Other Asian 858 | Vietnamese 709 | 192,288 | |
| Guadalupe County | 31,334 | Spanish 28,216 | German 984 | Tagalog / Filipino 489 | Vietnamese 349 | Korean 246 | Chinese 149 | 134,116 | |
| Nolan County | 3,273 | Spanish 3,211 | German 18 | Hebrew 14 | Russian 13 | Japanese 9 | Vietnamese 8 | 14,058 | |
| San Saba County | 1,300 | Spanish 1,217 | Polish 38 | German 28 | Vietnamese 16 | French 1 | — | 5,570 | |
| Haskell County | 1,304 | Spanish 1,222 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 35 | African languages 19 | Chinese 15 | French 11 | Other Indo-European 2 | 5,601 | |
| Mason County | 891 | Spanish 749 | Vietnamese 85 | German 49 | Tagalog / Filipino 7 | Other Native North American 1 | — | 3,838 | |
| Wilson County | 9,954 | Spanish 9,324 | Polish 248 | German 149 | Hindi 42 | Chinese 39 | Korean 27 | 42,959 | |
| Colorado County | 4,435 | Spanish 4,167 | Other Slavic 126 | German 99 | Tagalog / Filipino 34 | French 5 | Korean 4 | 19,553 | |
| Wheeler County | 1,178 | Spanish 1,068 | African languages 28 | Other Pacific Island 27 | Other Slavic 16 | Arabic 10 | Vietnamese 9 | 5,226 | |
| Lubbock County | 60,737 | Spanish 52,707 | Chinese 1,042 | African languages 661 | Other Indic 642 | French 619 | Arabic 591 | 270,579 | |
| Gillespie County | 5,408 | Spanish 4,260 | German 941 | Other / unspecified 60 | Italian 42 | French 29 | Arabic 27 | 24,159 | |
| Denton County | 151,978 | Spanish 94,179 | Other Asian 7,839 | Vietnamese 6,464 | Chinese 6,460 | Korean 6,431 | Urdu 3,694 | 681,895 | |
| Comanche County | 2,816 | Spanish 2,685 | Persian 31 | Other Slavic 20 | Other West Germanic 15 | German 13 | Russian 11 | 12,774 | |
| Navarro County | 9,828 | Spanish 9,026 | Other Pacific Island 411 | Tagalog / Filipino 123 | Other Indic 64 | Italian 50 | Chinese 21 | 44,666 | |
| Jefferson County | 51,540 | Spanish 39,861 | Vietnamese 3,746 | French 1,551 | Urdu 1,307 | Hindi 810 | Tagalog / Filipino 607 | 235,590 | |
| Kimble County | 902 | Spanish 892 | German 10 | — | — | — | — | 4,257 | |
| Jackson County | 2,843 | Spanish 2,748 | French 22 | Other Slavic 19 | Chinese 19 | German 17 | Korean 9 | 13,409 | |
| Camp County | 2,444 | Spanish 2,387 | Chinese 21 | Other Slavic 16 | Vietnamese 10 | Other Native North American 10 | — | 11,650 | |
| Williamson County | 91,102 | Spanish 64,037 | Chinese 3,226 | Other Asian 3,194 | Vietnamese 2,411 | Hindi 1,894 | German 1,592 | 440,120 | |
| Hartley County | 1,195 | Spanish 1,108 | German 51 | Other West Germanic 14 | French 11 | Other Pacific Island 9 | Tagalog / Filipino 1 | 5,795 | |
| Knox County | 722 | Spanish 707 | German 8 | French 7 | — | — | — | 3,505 | |
| Fisher County | 726 | Spanish 708 | Thai 7 | Chinese 6 | French 5 | — | — | 3,599 | |
| Jones County | 3,836 | Spanish 3,682 | Urdu 30 | German 28 | Arabic 20 | Russian 17 | French 14 | 19,064 | |
| Gray County | 4,267 | Spanish 3,955 | Scandinavian 86 | Tagalog / Filipino 52 | Arabic 51 | German 36 | Japanese 30 | 21,335 | |
| Galveston County | 57,627 | Spanish 44,934 | Vietnamese 2,035 | French 1,225 | Chinese 1,181 | Tagalog / Filipino 1,046 | Other Asian 840 | 287,973 | |
| Austin County | 5,395 | Spanish 5,014 | Other Slavic 136 | German 112 | Polish 52 | French 35 | Greek 18 | 27,130 | |
| Grimes County | 5,073 | Spanish 4,887 | German 54 | Other Slavic 22 | Polish 20 | Japanese 17 | Vietnamese 16 | 25,629 | |
| Chambers County | 6,848 | Spanish 5,684 | Arabic 306 | Portuguese 143 | Vietnamese 132 | Russian 130 | Hindi 112 | 34,716 | |
| Cherokee County | 9,322 | Spanish 8,938 | Vietnamese 71 | French 56 | German 39 | Other Asian 34 | Japanese 30 | 47,585 | |
| Montgomery County | 91,010 | Spanish 76,883 | Chinese 2,003 | German 1,199 | Tagalog / Filipino 1,034 | Other Asian 1,010 | Urdu 940 | 467,817 | |
| Erath County | 7,246 | Spanish 6,891 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 79 | Other West Germanic 54 | Chinese 53 | Tagalog / Filipino 46 | Gujarati 26 | 37,514 | |
| McLennan County | 42,888 | Spanish 37,101 | Chinese 694 | Vietnamese 548 | Tagalog / Filipino 515 | French 509 | Other Asian 463 | 224,219 | |
| Ellis County | 27,805 | Spanish 25,942 | Vietnamese 333 | Other Slavic 225 | African languages 201 | German 168 | French 115 | 146,649 | |
| Bell County | 55,921 | Spanish 41,669 | German 3,179 | Korean 2,683 | Other Pacific Island 1,079 | Tagalog / Filipino 1,071 | Vietnamese 831 | 297,055 | |
| Lavaca County | 3,444 | Spanish 2,623 | Other Slavic 664 | German 39 | French 24 | Tagalog / Filipino 20 | Chinese 17 | 18,333 | |
| Lee County | 2,901 | Spanish 2,518 | German 257 | Chinese 60 | French 34 | Italian 12 | Korean 9 | 15,742 | |
| Falls County | 2,982 | Spanish 2,787 | Other West Germanic 58 | French 32 | German 29 | Urdu 29 | Russian 15 | 16,346 | |
| Limestone County | 3,972 | Spanish 3,626 | German 88 | Vietnamese 67 | African languages 62 | Russian 27 | Chinese 25 | 21,972 | |
| Fayette County | 4,255 | Spanish 3,653 | German 271 | Other Slavic 248 | Vietnamese 28 | Arabic 26 | Polish 14 | 23,545 | |
| Cottle County | 238 | Spanish 229 | German 9 | — | — | — | — | 1,327 | |
| Angelina County | 14,553 | Spanish 13,245 | Chinese 429 | French 179 | Korean 119 | German 113 | Vietnamese 76 | 81,553 | |
| Kerr County | 8,480 | Spanish 7,944 | German 164 | Tagalog / Filipino 113 | French 36 | Laotian 35 | Arabic 31 | 47,625 | |
| Liberty County | 12,749 | Spanish 11,815 | Vietnamese 185 | German 118 | French 116 | Other Pacific Island 108 | Other West Germanic 72 | 72,186 | |
| Shelby County | 4,218 | Spanish 3,709 | African languages 260 | Other Asian 167 | Chinese 47 | French 31 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 3 | 23,879 | |
| Stephens County | 1,573 | Spanish 1,507 | Other Native North American 37 | Tagalog / Filipino 21 | French 8 | — | — | 8,893 | |
| Comal County | 19,920 | Spanish 17,255 | German 1,224 | Russian 179 | Other Indic 137 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 123 | Polish 120 | 112,867 | |
| Smith County | 35,121 | Spanish 30,522 | Tagalog / Filipino 663 | Other Asian 566 | German 465 | French 347 | Vietnamese 323 | 202,358 | |
| DeWitt County | 3,319 | Spanish 3,032 | German 130 | Other Slavic 59 | Tagalog / Filipino 35 | Polish 20 | African languages 17 | 19,215 | |
| McCulloch County | 1,338 | Spanish 1,318 | Other Slavic 6 | Polish 5 | Vietnamese 5 | Japanese 3 | Arabic 1 | 7,758 | |
| Irion County | 258 | Spanish 258 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,557 | |
| Madison County | 2,193 | Spanish 2,092 | Chinese 25 | French 20 | Vietnamese 17 | German 13 | Other Slavic 12 | 13,178 | |
| Kaufman County | 16,798 | Spanish 14,900 | German 427 | Laotian 205 | Vietnamese 204 | African languages 176 | Portuguese 152 | 101,534 | |
| Gregg County | 18,636 | Spanish 16,500 | Tagalog / Filipino 259 | Chinese 247 | Vietnamese 231 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 180 | French 170 | 113,830 | |
| Walker County | 10,762 | Spanish 9,595 | African languages 329 | Chinese 133 | French 124 | Other Indic 112 | German 107 | 66,283 | |
| Johnson County | 23,260 | Spanish 20,883 | Other Pacific Island 609 | German 343 | Chinese 215 | Urdu 152 | Laotian 143 | 145,191 | |
| Nacogdoches County | 9,699 | Spanish 8,531 | Other Asian 174 | Gujarati 168 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 105 | Tagalog / Filipino 98 | Vietnamese 88 | 60,792 | |
| Hill County | 5,213 | Spanish 4,852 | German 96 | Other Slavic 38 | Portuguese 36 | Chinese 34 | Arabic 27 | 32,800 | |
| Goliad County | 1,115 | Spanish 1,081 | German 28 | Chinese 5 | African languages 1 | — | — | 7,082 | |
| Taylor County | 19,436 | Spanish 15,461 | Chinese 524 | African languages 479 | German 455 | Other Indic 428 | French 363 | 124,537 | |
| Aransas County | 3,525 | Spanish 3,037 | Vietnamese 352 | Arabic 39 | French 35 | Hebrew 29 | German 16 | 23,131 | |
| Blanco County | 1,529 | Spanish 1,340 | German 93 | Other Asian 42 | Polish 27 | French 16 | Italian 7 | 10,266 | |
| Anderson County | 8,136 | Spanish 7,424 | Vietnamese 203 | African languages 195 | German 75 | French 53 | Tagalog / Filipino 45 | 54,896 | |
| Milam County | 3,361 | Spanish 2,969 | German 128 | Other Slavic 71 | Korean 58 | Other Asian 57 | Vietnamese 32 | 22,784 | |
| Coryell County | 10,336 | Spanish 6,996 | German 1,012 | Other Pacific Island 410 | Tagalog / Filipino 304 | French 297 | Korean 293 | 70,249 | |
| Bosque County | 2,499 | Spanish 2,380 | French 50 | German 31 | Korean 21 | Tagalog / Filipino 10 | Thai 5 | 16,996 | |
| Burleson County | 2,383 | Spanish 2,125 | Urdu 53 | Other Slavic 51 | Polish 40 | Chinese 37 | German 35 | 16,322 | |
| Burnet County | 6,114 | Spanish 5,804 | African languages 98 | German 69 | Polish 58 | French 44 | Persian 32 | 41,765 | |
| Robertson County | 2,258 | Spanish 2,026 | Arabic 98 | African languages 79 | Polish 19 | Vietnamese 13 | French Creole 10 | 15,430 | |
| Hopkins County | 4,813 | Spanish 4,363 | Other West Germanic 166 | Vietnamese 106 | Hindi 34 | French 22 | Tagalog / Filipino 17 | 33,220 | |
| Rockwall County | 11,625 | Spanish 8,929 | German 377 | Other Asian 367 | African languages 222 | Vietnamese 199 | Arabic 197 | 80,113 | |
| Loving County | 17 | Spanish 17 | — | — | — | — | — | 117 | |
| Kendall County | 5,136 | Spanish 4,543 | German 173 | Other West Germanic 123 | Vietnamese 76 | French 73 | Italian 67 | 35,469 | |
| Dickens County | 307 | Spanish 299 | Italian 3 | German 3 | Korean 1 | African languages 1 | — | 2,149 | |
| Cooke County | 5,188 | Spanish 4,545 | German 223 | French 57 | Gujarati 57 | Other Indic 55 | Hungarian 41 | 36,236 | |
| Young County | 2,412 | Spanish 2,380 | German 13 | Other West Germanic 11 | Chinese 8 | — | — | 17,047 | |
| Wilbarger County | 1,726 | Spanish 1,626 | Other Indo-European 28 | Chinese 27 | French 11 | Vietnamese 11 | Tagalog / Filipino 11 | 12,295 | |
| Real County | 442 | Spanish 436 | African languages 6 | — | — | — | — | 3,148 | |
| Washington County | 4,495 | Spanish 3,684 | German 216 | Other Indic 199 | Other Asian 102 | Polish 82 | Vietnamese 56 | 32,179 | |
| Somervell County | 1,132 | Spanish 1,113 | Thai 13 | Other Slavic 6 | — | — | — | 8,163 | |
| Wise County | 7,966 | Spanish 7,633 | Hmong 92 | Tagalog / Filipino 53 | Arabic 39 | Chinese 35 | Portuguese 32 | 57,104 | |
| Hutchinson County | 2,813 | Spanish 2,681 | Chinese 36 | German 22 | Tagalog / Filipino 14 | Japanese 13 | Korean 11 | 20,329 | |
| Hunt County | 11,282 | Spanish 9,648 | Chinese 196 | German 188 | Russian 138 | Other Asian 136 | Korean 133 | 82,546 | |
| Wichita County | 16,640 | Spanish 12,879 | Other Asian 581 | German 562 | Vietnamese 392 | African languages 360 | Tagalog / Filipino 286 | 123,305 | |
| Lampasas County | 2,524 | Spanish 1,947 | German 197 | African languages 76 | Other Pacific Island 64 | Hebrew 57 | Tagalog / Filipino 50 | 19,026 | |
| Rusk County | 6,645 | Spanish 6,232 | Other Indic 91 | German 56 | Japanese 54 | Italian 32 | Tagalog / Filipino 29 | 50,033 | |
| Childress County | 875 | Spanish 741 | Korean 42 | German 40 | Armenian 19 | Arabic 14 | Other Indic 8 | 6,720 | |
| Kent County | 94 | Spanish 94 | — | — | — | — | — | 740 | |
| Hardeman County | 486 | Spanish 471 | Arabic 9 | Hindi 5 | French 1 | — | — | 3,854 | |
| Franklin County | 1,243 | Spanish 1,187 | Other West Germanic 18 | Arabic 15 | German 12 | Yiddish 7 | Korean 4 | 9,971 | |
| Mills County | 578 | Spanish 548 | German 18 | Other Indo-European 9 | Japanese 2 | French 1 | — | 4,643 | |
| Palo Pinto County | 3,215 | Spanish 2,969 | German 42 | Persian 42 | Other Indic 34 | Chinese 26 | French 23 | 26,072 | |
| Polk County | 5,365 | Spanish 4,770 | Other Native North American 199 | Other Indic 70 | Urdu 66 | Arabic 42 | French 37 | 43,513 | |
| Freestone County | 2,228 | Spanish 2,017 | Other Slavic 65 | Arabic 32 | German 28 | Other Indic 23 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 18 | 18,438 | |
| Coke County | 365 | Spanish 360 | Chinese 4 | Portuguese 1 | — | — | — | 3,173 | |
| Leon County | 1,798 | Spanish 1,696 | German 55 | Vietnamese 19 | Other Indic 18 | French 5 | Italian 5 | 15,733 | |
| Jack County | 972 | Spanish 935 | African languages 13 | German 8 | Russian 8 | Korean 4 | Tagalog / Filipino 3 | 8,566 | |
| Bandera County | 2,202 | Spanish 1,982 | German 96 | French 45 | Other West Germanic 31 | Chinese 16 | Vietnamese 16 | 19,905 | |
| Borden County | 66 | Spanish 39 | Hebrew 17 | French 5 | Vietnamese 3 | Other Slavic 2 | — | 601 | |
| Runnels County | 1,080 | Spanish 1,010 | German 30 | Other Asian 10 | Russian 7 | Korean 7 | Persian 4 | 9,840 | |
| Stonewall County | 144 | Spanish 144 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,313 | |
| Montague County | 1,920 | Spanish 1,792 | Italian 44 | German 43 | Other Indic 20 | Other Asian 18 | Other West Germanic 2 | 18,327 | |
| Randall County | 12,385 | Spanish 9,742 | German 350 | Chinese 321 | Arabic 275 | African languages 272 | Vietnamese 168 | 118,481 | |
| Grayson County | 11,950 | Spanish 9,913 | Chinese 336 | Hindi 185 | French 154 | African languages 148 | German 136 | 115,166 | |
| Hood County | 5,186 | Spanish 4,772 | Tagalog / Filipino 130 | Other West Germanic 54 | German 47 | French 31 | Portuguese 28 | 50,351 | |
| Throckmorton County | 150 | Spanish 145 | Portuguese 2 | Arabic 2 | Other / unspecified 1 | — | — | 1,458 | |
| Eastland County | 1,745 | Spanish 1,568 | Other Indic 68 | Other Asian 46 | French 39 | Vietnamese 6 | German 5 | 17,208 | |
| Oldham County | 194 | Spanish 186 | Polish 5 | Other Asian 3 | — | — | — | 1,936 | |
| Harrison County | 6,081 | Spanish 5,498 | Other Indic 105 | Chinese 55 | French 50 | Tagalog / Filipino 50 | German 43 | 61,956 | |
| San Jacinto County | 2,432 | Spanish 2,297 | Urdu 81 | Vietnamese 25 | French 14 | Laotian 10 | Chinese 3 | 25,441 | |
| Fannin County | 2,978 | Spanish 2,492 | German 104 | Other Indic 62 | Portuguese 57 | French 50 | Vietnamese 49 | 31,921 | |
| Henderson County | 6,722 | Spanish 5,912 | Vietnamese 173 | German 143 | Other Indic 81 | Persian 79 | Urdu 56 | 74,574 | |
| Parker County | 10,050 | Spanish 8,773 | German 219 | Other Indic 184 | African languages 160 | Chinese 111 | Other Asian 84 | 114,344 | |
| Motley County | 88 | Spanish 88 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,018 | |
| Van Zandt County | 4,247 | Spanish 3,722 | Gujarati 104 | Hindi 62 | Other Pacific Island 46 | French 44 | Arabic 44 | 49,832 | |
| Hamilton County | 660 | Spanish 569 | Persian 30 | Japanese 19 | French 10 | Hindi 10 | Vietnamese 9 | 7,856 | |
| Trinity County | 1,099 | Spanish 937 | German 63 | French 48 | Other Asian 47 | Other Indo-European 4 | — | 13,786 | |
| Armstrong County | 146 | Spanish 124 | German 14 | Other Pacific Island 8 | — | — | — | 1,828 | |
| Tyler County | 1,608 | Spanish 1,409 | French 161 | German 13 | Korean 12 | Thai 5 | Portuguese 4 | 20,307 | |
| Wood County | 3,115 | Spanish 2,719 | Vietnamese 157 | German 49 | Serbo-Croatian 31 | Other Indo-European 29 | Korean 24 | 40,677 | |
| Houston County | 1,657 | Spanish 1,492 | French 45 | French Creole 39 | German 32 | Korean 26 | Thai 15 | 21,768 | |
| Foard County | 84 | Spanish 69 | Persian 8 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 7 | — | — | — | 1,129 | |
| Panola County | 1,637 | Spanish 1,456 | Vietnamese 95 | French 37 | Yiddish 18 | German 6 | Thai 6 | 22,352 | |
| Morris County | 852 | Spanish 825 | African languages 15 | French 5 | Polish 4 | Vietnamese 3 | — | 11,913 | |
| Lamar County | 3,309 | Spanish 2,263 | German 600 | Laotian 94 | Urdu 52 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 47 | French 44 | 46,368 | |
| Archer County | 576 | Spanish 549 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 19 | Other Slavic 6 | Korean 2 | — | — | 8,455 | |
| Brown County | 2,407 | Spanish 2,170 | Korean 49 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 46 | Tagalog / Filipino 24 | Other Indo-European 14 | Other Asian 14 | 35,654 | |
| Red River County | 793 | Spanish 751 | French Creole 13 | French 8 | Arabic 7 | Other Indic 6 | Other Native North American 6 | 11,942 | |
| Rains County | 676 | Spanish 610 | Other Indic 24 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 20 | German 11 | Hebrew 6 | Tagalog / Filipino 3 | 10,498 | |
| Bowie County | 5,514 | Spanish 4,044 | Chinese 362 | Vietnamese 162 | African languages 145 | Other Indo-European 140 | Tagalog / Filipino 130 | 87,215 | |
| Jasper County | 2,087 | Spanish 1,802 | African languages 75 | German 63 | Korean 40 | French 29 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 24 | 33,336 | |
| Llano County | 1,171 | Spanish 1,016 | Vietnamese 50 | German 32 | Other Slavic 27 | Japanese 21 | Other Indo-European 19 | 18,522 | |
| Donley County | 209 | Spanish 180 | German 18 | Tagalog / Filipino 6 | Other Indo-European 4 | Laotian 1 | — | 3,395 | |
| Shackelford County | 191 | Spanish 190 | African languages 1 | — | — | — | — | 3,142 | |
| Upshur County | 2,279 | Spanish 1,957 | Russian 64 | Mon-Khmer / Cambodian 49 | German 46 | Tagalog / Filipino 32 | Vietnamese 30 | 37,536 | |
| Carson County | 339 | Spanish 280 | Russian 17 | German 16 | Greek 12 | French 9 | Other Pacific Island 5 | 5,730 | |
| San Augustine County | 456 | Spanish 404 | German 37 | Russian 12 | Vietnamese 3 | — | — | 8,202 | |
| Coleman County | 439 | Spanish 382 | Other Indic 43 | German 10 | French 3 | Other Pacific Island 1 | — | 8,041 | |
| Callahan County | 615 | Spanish 555 | Tagalog / Filipino 20 | Arabic 18 | Korean 10 | French 9 | German 3 | 12,723 | |
| Clay County | 477 | Spanish 421 | Japanese 29 | Vietnamese 13 | French 12 | Thai 2 | — | 9,962 | |
| Orange County | 3,659 | Spanish 2,435 | Vietnamese 296 | French 280 | Tagalog / Filipino 151 | Other Pacific Island 115 | Hungarian 73 | 77,697 | |
| Sabine County | 448 | Spanish 402 | Tagalog / Filipino 27 | French 11 | Italian 4 | German 4 | — | 9,968 | |
| Baylor County | 154 | Spanish 113 | Other Indo-European 22 | Italian 10 | Other Pacific Island 9 | — | — | 3,500 | |
| Marion County | 393 | Spanish 348 | Italian 13 | Korean 13 | Arabic 10 | French 6 | Hungarian 3 | 9,822 | |
| Hardin County | 1,879 | Spanish 1,392 | French 106 | Chinese 101 | Vietnamese 64 | German 47 | Tagalog / Filipino 45 | 51,768 | |
| Cass County | 874 | Spanish 776 | Portuguese 20 | Hindi 16 | Other Pacific Island 12 | Hebrew 12 | French 9 | 28,552 | |
| Newton County | 404 | Spanish 236 | Vietnamese 44 | French 36 | Chinese 33 | Navajo 26 | Russian 13 | 13,442 | |
| Delta County | 114 | Spanish 42 | Arabic 30 | Korean 21 | German 15 | Other Native North American 3 | Hebrew 3 | 4,865 | |
| Roberts County | 8 | Spanish 5 | Vietnamese 2 | Chinese 1 | — | — | — | 880 |
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2011–2015 5-Year Estimates, Table B16001 · Population age 5 and over
About the Data
Data on this page comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey 2011–2015 5-Year Estimates, table B16001, Language Spoken at Home by Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over. Statewide and county estimates use the same Census table so the figures can be compared consistently across the page.
The estimates describe languages spoken at home among residents age 5 and older. Census estimates include margins of error, particularly for smaller counties and less common language groups.