Excluding English and Spanish, Chinese is the most common language spoken at home in Pennsylvania. Unless Pennsylvania German is counted as German, in which case those who speak German at home outnumber those who speak Chinese. The language data used for this map track Pennsylvania German (also known as Pennsylvania Dutch) separately from other dialects of German.
The regions on this map are from the U.S. Census Bureau's Public Use Microdata Areas. Each region has about 100,000-200,000 residents.
The language data are from the Census Bureau's 2018 American Community Survey, which collapses over 1300 languages and language groups into about 130 languages and language groups for the Public Use Microdata Samples used for this map.
Colors used for map and legend from CARTO.
Cartographic boundary files from the Census Bureau converted to geoJson format by
MyGeodata Cloud.
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