Boston's top 5 foreign languages spoken at home, 2015
Item Information
- Title:
- Boston's top 5 foreign languages spoken at home, 2015
- Title (alt.):
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Boston's top five foreign languages spoken at home, 2015
- Description:
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This map shows that the top 5 foreign languages spoken at home are Spanish, Chinese, French (Haitian) Creole, Portuguese & Cape Verdean Creole, and Vietnamese. Approximately 37% of Bostonians age five and older speak a language other than English at home, an increase of 4% from 2000 to 2015. The neighborhoods of East Boston, Roxbury, and Mission Hill have the highest percentages of foreign languages spoken at home. In Boston Public Schools during 2016-2017, 45% of the students spoke a language other than English as their first language, while English Language Learner students speak more than 71 different languages as their home language.
- Cartographer:
- Boston Planning and Development Agency
- Name on Item:
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Boston Planning & Development Agency
- Date:
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[2017]
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
- Subjects:
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Boston (Mass.)--Maps
Boston (Mass.)--Languages--Maps
- Places:
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Suffolk (county)Boston
- Extent:
- 1 map : color
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Publisher:
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Boston :
Boston Planning & Development Agency
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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"Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2011-2015 American Community Survey, BPDA Research Division Analysis."
- Notes (date):
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This date is inferred.
- Notes (exhibitions):
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Exhibited: "Who We Are: Boston Immigration Then and Now," organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2017.
- Identifier:
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Languages_Spoken_at_Home_acs11_15
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