Under
ORS 251.167, the Secretary of State must create and make publicly available a list of the five most commonly spoken languages in each county, other than English, and that list must: (a) be based on the best available data; (b) include the estimated number of individuals in each county who speak each listed language; and (c) updated at least every 5 years.
Sources:
American Community Survey data, including estimated numbers of limited English proficient individuals who self-evaluate their ability to speak English as “less than very well,” and estimates from the
Population Research Center at Portland State University, 2022.
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 116
Chinese- estimated number of speakers: 1,572
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 1,059
Korean - estimated number of speakers: 401
Arabic - estimated number of speakers: 183
Thai - estimated number of speakers: 169
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 8,229
Chinese - estimated number of speakers: 1,649
Russian - estimated number of speakers: 830
Vietnamese - estimated number of speakers: 793
Ukrainian - estimated number of speakers: 680
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 628
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 161
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 468
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 67
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 250
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 2,748
Chinese - estimated number of speakers: 213
French - estimated number of speakers: 142
Tagalog - estimated number of speakers: 134
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 650
Chinese - estimated number of speakers: 154
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 25
Spanish- estimated number of speakers: 62
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 45
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 3,140
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 5,063
Tagalog - estimated number of speakers: 201
Vietnamese - estimated number of speakers: 161
Chinese - estimated number of speakers: 146
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 1,038
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 813
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 1,923
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 178
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 4,657
Chinese - estimated number of speakers: 1,239
Japanese - estimated number of speakers: 333
Korean - estimated number of speakers: 241
Vietnamese - estimated number of speakers: 176
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 791
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 2,828
Chinese - estimated number of speakers: 128
Tagalog - estimated number of speakers: 112
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 1,916
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 27,066
Russian - estimated number of speakers: 1,263
Chinese- estimated number of speakers: 654
Vietnamese - estimated number of speakers: 338
Marshallese - estimated number of speakers: 336
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 1,390
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 21,828
Vietnamese - estimated number of speakers: 10,150
Chinese - estimated number of speakers: 6,345
Russian - estimated number of speakers: 4,956
Ukrainian - estimated number of speakers: 1,854
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 2,079
Chinese - estimated number of speakers: 180
Russian - estimated number of speakers: 148
Marshallese - estimated number of speakers: 148
Vietnamese - estimated number of speakers: 134
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 5
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 1,030
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 6,152
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 113
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 31
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 1,414
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 25,580
Vietnamese - estimated number of speakers: 4,063
Chinese - estimated number of speakers: 2,985
Korean - estimated number of speakers: 2,645
Arabic - estimated number of speakers: 1,297
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 9
Spanish - estimated number of speakers: 4,819
Chinese- estimated number of speakers: 235
German - estimated number of speakers: 139