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What percentage of Americans speak English less than very well?
8.7% of Americans speak English less than very well — about 9 in every 100, or 1 in 10. That is the figure published by the American Community Survey for 2023.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- American Community Survey
- What it measured
- American Community Survey 1-year estimate, published under the label “LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME → Population 5 years and over → Language other than English → Speak English less than "very well"”.
- Population
- Americans aged 5 and over
- Year
- 2023
- 90% confidence interval
- 8.6% to 8.8%
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