NGUOI VIET
Vietnamese was one of eight languages spoken by at least 1 million people in America.
There were 1.4 million people who spoke Vietnamese at home in the U.S. In 2011, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released today.
2011 data from the American Community Survey also shows that the number of Vietnamese speakers in the U.S. grew seven-fold from 1980 to 2010, the largest rate of increase for any language: In 1980, there were only about 200,000 people spoke Vietnamese.
Of these 1.4 million Vietnamese speakers in 2011, 40 percent also spoke English “very well.”
The four metropolitan areas with largest concentration of Vietnamese speakers are: Los Angeles (233,000), Houston (89,000) and Dallas-Fort Worth (61,000).
Overall, the percentage of people in the U.S. speaking a language other than English at home went from 17.9 percent in 2000 to 19.7 percent in 2007, while continuing upward to 20.8 percent in 2011.
The percent speaking English less than “very well” grew from 8.1 percent in 2000 to 8.7 percent in 2011.
