Alleghany County Ashe County Avery County Mitchell County Watauga County Wilkes County Yancey County

Watauga County

QT-P16. Language Spoken at Home: 2000
Subject Number Percent
     
         Population 5 years and over 41,021 100.0%
Speak only English 39,132 95.4%
Speak a language other than English 1,889 4.6%
     
          Speak a language other than English 1,889 4.6%
Spanish or Spanish Creole 914 2.2%
French (incl. Patois, Cajun) 296 0.7%
French Creole 0 0.0%
Italian 35 0.1%
Portuguese or Portugese Creole 53 0.1%
German 224 0.5%
Yiddish 6 0.0%
Other West Germanic languages 15 0.0%
Scandinavian languages 28 0.1%
Greek 31 0.1%
     
Russian 19 0.0%
Polish 19 0.0%
Serbo-Croatian 0 0.0%
Other Slavic languages 15 0.0%
Armenian 0 0.0%
Persian 0 0.0%
Gujarathi 0 0.0%
Hindu 0 0.0%
Urdu 0 0.0%
Other Indic languages 5 0.0%
Other Indo-European languages 22 0.1%
     
Chinese 52 0.1%
Japanese 26 0.1%
Korean 26 0.1%
Mon-Khmer, Cambodian 0 0.0%
Miao, Hmong 0 0.0%
Thai 0 0.0%
Laotian 0 0.0%
Vietnamese 7 0.0%
Other Asian languages 5 0.0%
Tagalog 0 0.0%
Other Pacific Island languages 6 0.0%
     
Navajo 0 0.0%
Other Native North American languages 0 0.0%
Hungarian 9 0.0%
Arabic 24 0.1%
Hebrew 41 0.1%
African languages 11 0.0%
Other and unspecified languages 0 0.0%

 

Date: October 2, 2002

[Data based on a sample]
(X) Not applicable.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrix PCT10.
purpose | membership | staff | board | calendar | annual report
program divisions | local govt | state reps | links | demographics&statistics


Purpose of High Country High Country membership High Country Staff High Country Board of Directors Calendar Annual Report