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2015 Texas Mapping LEP Populations in Your Community - Number by County

State or Territory
Year
2015
Map Level
county
Population Count Type
number
Text Version
Description of TX LEP Maps

TX Raw Count Map (Description)

This map illustrates the LEP counties of Texas with pie charts of the top five LEP counties:

Dallas County-Brown Shading

El Paso County-Dark Orange Shading

Harris County-Dark Brown Shading

Hidalgo County-Dark Orange Shading

Tarrant County-Dark Orange Shading

Each county is color shaded to indicate the total number of limited English proficient (LEP) persons in the county. We have defined LEP persons as individuals five years and over who speak a language other than English at home and who have indicated that they speak English less than very well (LVW). For each of the top five LEP counties, we have provided a pie chart that breaks down the top five languages spoken in the county (according to the total number of each language spoken) with the remaining languages in a sixth category called “All Other Languages”.

Raw Counts:

The colors correspond to the total number of LEP individuals in the county as follows:

·        Pale White: (<=1K)

·        Light Yellow: (>1K AND <=10K)

·        Pale Orange: (>10K AND <=50K)

·        Orange: (>50K AND <=100K)

·        Dark Orange: (>100K AND <=250K)

·        Brown: (>250K AND <=750K)

·        Dark Brown: (>750K)

The counties in Texas are shaded to indicate the number of limited English proficient (LEP) persons in the county. We have defined LEP persons as individuals five years or older who speak a language other than English at home and who have indicated that they speak English less than very well (LVW). The tables explain the raw count number and percentage of LEP persons by language spoken for Texas’s top five counties.

Dallas County

Total LEP (LVW): 465,919

Language

Spanish

Vietnamese

Chinese

Other Asian

African

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

401,796

16,003

6,760

6,606

6,091

28,663

% LEP LVW

86

4

2

1

1

6

 

El Paso County

Total LEP (LVW): 235,186

Language

Spanish

Korean

German

Chinese

Tagalog

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

229,152

867

828

775

531

3,033

% LEP LVW

98

1

0

0

0

1

 

Harris County

Total LEP (LVW): 819,879

Language

Spanish

Vietnamese

Chinese

Arabic

Other Asian

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

681,373

45,290

22,241

8,006

6,516

56,453

% LEP LVW

83

5

3

1

1

7

 

Hidalgo County

Total LEP (LVW): 236,435

Language

Spanish

Tagalog

Korean

French

Japanese

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

233,749

685

452

342

303

904

% LEP LVW

99

0

0

0

0

1

 

Tarrant County

Total LEP (LVW): 214,559

Language

Spanish

Vietnamese

Other Indic

African

Arabic

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

163,986

16,709

4,019

3,715

3,396

22,734

% LEP LVW

76

8

2

2

1

11

Each county in the State of Texas is color shaded to indicate the total number of limited English proficient (LEP) persons in the county. We have defined LEP persons as individuals five years and over who speak a language other than English at home and who have indicated that they speak English less than very well (LVW). We have provided a pie chart that breaks down the top five languages spoken in the entire State of Texas (according to the total number of each language spoken) with the remaining languages in a sixth category called “All Other Languages”. The table below explains the raw count number and percentage of LEP persons by language spoken for the State of Texas.

State of Texas

Total LEP (LVW): 3,486,872

Language

Spanish

Vietnamese

Chinese

Other Asian

Korean

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

2,996,025

117,367

75,070

33,462

29,947

235,001

% LEP LVW

86

3

2

1

1

7