22% of the U.S. population does not speak English at home, double the rate 40 years ago, and in California it is as high as 44%.

Data released by the Federal Census Bureau on the 3rd showed that more and more people in the United States do not speak English at home; nearly 22% of residents over the age of five speak a language other than English at home, which is twice the rate of 40 years ago. Among them, 44% of residents in California speak non-English languages ​​at home; but in West Virginia, the proportion is only 2.5%.

Spanish is the second most popular language in American households after English, and 13.2% of the population in the United States speak Spanish at home. The only three states where the second most popular non-English language is not Spanish are Hawaii, Maine and Vermont; Maine and Vermont are French Canadian settlements, and the most popular non-English language is French; the most popular non-English language in Hawaii is Iloko.

At the same time, the second most popular non-English language used in states across the United States shows unexpected diversity. William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, said that despite the Trump administration’s tough measures on immigration, “the United States remains a multilingual country, and it is an important element of our identity for a long time; people of different backgrounds are scattered all over the country.”

President Trump issued an executive order earlier this year designating English as the official language of the United States. Here is the regional distribution of language usage in the United States:

For example, Chinese is the second most common non-English language spoken at home in California, Delaware, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington.

Arabic is the second most common non-English language spoken at home in Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia.

Central Yup’ik is the second most common non-English language spoken at home in Alaska.

French is the main non-English language in Maine and Vermont, but it is the second most common non-English language in Louisiana, Maryland, New Hampshire and North Carolina.

Korean is the second most spoken non-English language in Alabama and Virginia. Vietnamese is the second most spoken non-English language in Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.

German is the second most spoken non-English language in eight states: Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Wyoming.