Main immigrant/minority languages in London and New York - compare and contrast

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From the 2011 and 2000 Censuses respectively.

LONDON

Source: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/asv2htm.aspx

All usual residents aged 3 and over 7,809,942
English 6,083,420
Polish 147,816
Bengali (with Sylheti and Chatgaya) 114,267
Gujarati 101,676
French 84,191
Urdu 78,667
Portuguese 71,525
Turkish 71,242
Spanish 71,192
Arabic 70,602
Tamil 70,565
Panjabi 68,525
Somali 54,852
Italian 49,484
Romanian 39,653
Persian/Farsi 39,645
Lithuanian 35,341
All other Chinese 34,712
German 31,306
Greek 26,924
Russian 26,603
Tagalog/Filipino 25,869
Bulgarian 23,032
Albanian 23,006
Hindi 21,503
Nepalese 19,388
Japanese 17,050
Hungarian 16,570
Kurdish 15,230
Pashto 15,096
Akan 13,188
Cantonese Chinese 12,329
Slovak 10,446
Swedish 10,428
Yoruba 10,119
Dutch 9,603
Malayalam 9,201
Korean 8,257
All other languages 8,250
Vietnamese 8,087
Sinhala 7,945
West/Central Asian Language (all other) 7,872
South Asian Language (all other) 7,519
Tigrinya 7,207
African language (all other) 7,126
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian 7,012
Thai 6,859
Czech 6,776
Mandarin Chinese 6,718
Swahili/Kiswahili 6,338
Amharic 6,174
Telugu 5,568
East Asian Language (all other) 5,451
Igbo 5,252
Northern European Language (non EU) 4,593
Latvian 4,452
West African language (all other) 4,430
Hebrew 4,403
Danish 4,185
Afrikaans 4,106
Sign Language: Total 3,988
Any other Nigerian language 3,577
Yiddish 3,482
Lingala 3,338
Shona 3,034
British sign language 2,926
Ukrainian 2,912
Malay 2,817
Finnish 2,800
Luganda 2,570
Marathi 2,527
Any other European Language (EU) 1,506
Welsh 1,310
Estonian 1,192
Maltese 1,056
Krio 905
Other Eastern European Languages (non EU) 896
Sign Language (all others) 584
Gaelic (Irish) 553
Slovenian 484
Any Sign Communication System 478
North/South American language (any) 438
Romani language (any) 336
Pakistani Pahari (with Mirpuri and Potwari) 324
Oceanic/Australian language (any) 204
Gypsy/Traveller languages 188
Gaelic (Not otherwise specified) 186
Caribbean Creole (English-based) 178
Scots 175
Caribbean Creole (all other) 56
Cornish 31
Gaelic (Scottish) 24
Manx Gaelic 9


NEW YORK

Source: https://apps.mla.org/map_data

Ages 5 + %
Total 7,473,829
English 3,920,800 52.46%
Spanish 1,832,365 24.52%
Chinese 263,085 3.52%
Russian 194,695 2.61%
Italian 139,700 1.87%
French 100,875 1.35%
French Creole 89,085 1.19%
Yiddish 82,875 1.11%
Korean 77,165 1.03%
Polish 60,770 0.81%
Greek 58,480 0.78%
Hebrew 50,375 0.67%
Arabic 49,080 0.66%
Bengali 47,495 0.64%
Tagalog 45,860 0.61%
Urdu 38,465 0.51%
Cantonese 38,375 0.51%
German 33,300 0.45%
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba 29,560 0.40%
Hindi 25,090 0.34%
Albanian 21,480 0.29%
Japanese 20,560 0.28%
Portuguese 18,510 0.25%
Panjabi 17,110 0.23%
Mandarin 14,900 0.20%
Romanian 13,945 0.19%
Persian 12,465 0.17%
Hungarian 11,405 0.15%
Vietnamese 10,115 0.14%
Serbo-Croatian 9,740 0.13%

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The figures for New York state are more up-to-date, as they are from the 2010 Census:

Ages 5 + %
Total 18,083,339
English 12,788,323 70.72%
All languages other than English combined 5,295,016 29.28%
Spanish 2,611,903 14.44%
Chinese 282,875 1.56%
Russian 216,468 1.20%
Italian 213,785 1.18%
French Creole 142,169 0.79%
French 135,789 0.75%
Yiddish 121,917 0.67%
Korean 114,574 0.63%
Cantonese 104,362 0.58%
Polish 95,413 0.53%
Mandarin 85,718 0.47%
Bengali 77,416 0.43%
Arabic 76,250 0.42%
Tagalog 76,167 0.42%
Hebrew 74,581 0.41%
Greek 72,864 0.40%
German 69,883 0.39%
Urdu 60,345 0.33%
Hindi 58,846 0.33%
Portuguese 46,452 0.26%
Kru, Ibo, Yoruba 44,713 0.25%
Albanian 39,413 0.22%
Japanese 34,983 0.19%
Panjabi 32,135 0.18%
Malayalam 24,093 0.13%
Persian 23,926 0.13%
Vietnamese 23,480 0.13%
Gujarathi 20,602 0.11%
Ukrainian 20,062 0.11%

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NYC Education Board offer bilingual programmes in many schools, the vast majority of which involve Spanish: https://infohub.nyced.org/docs/defau...rsn=9ce11ce3_6