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U.S. Cities with the Most Spanish Speakers

Can you name the cities in the United States which have the greatest number of Spanish speakers?
Based on city proper population
People age 5 and older who speak Spanish at home
Not counting Puerto Rico
Source: U.S. Census. Table S1601. 2023 5-Year Estimates.
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City
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1,820,000
New York
23
1,450,000
Los Angeles
40
802,000
Houston
37
608,000
Chicago
24
498,000
San Antonio
36
446,000
Phoenix
29
424,000
Dallas
35
406,000
El Paso
64
292,000
Miami
69
276,000
San Diego
21
218,000
Fort Worth
25
206,000
San Jose
22
205,000
Laredo
87
198,000
Santa Ana
67
194,000
Hialeah
92
184,000
Austin
20
160,000
Philadelphia
11
153,000
Las Vegas
25
149,000
Fresno
30
145,000
Brownsville
83
144,000
Long Beach
33
134,000
Anaheim
41
133,000
Bakersfield
35
132,000
Tucson
26
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31 Comments
IsleAuHaulte
+14
Level 92
Sep 7, 2022
How did Albuquerque miss out?
mightythor
+22
Level 68
Sep 25, 2022
According to this site, Albuquerque has a populaiton of 559,374, with 21.97% speaking Spanish at home,

for a total of 122502.9 (home) Spanish speakers.

Quiz cut off is 123K. Darn the luck.

This source claims 49.2% of the population is Hispanic, which suggests more than half of those either:

   * don't speak Spanish

   * speak Spanish, but

      + speak English at home

      + speak some other language at home

      + don't talk at home

         - I will leave it to the reader to speculate why

Jared0309
+4
Level 79
Sep 25, 2022
Well, it does specify those older than 5 probably because anyone younger than 5 can't really be considered fluent in whatever language they're learning barring extreme cases so that would account for some of them
blizzrd33
+7
Level 81
Sep 7, 2022
Why is Puerto Rico not included? What country does it fit under if not the USA?
cornflakesfu
+16
Level 89
Sep 8, 2022
Nobody knows in America

Puerto Rico's in America

loganite
+7
Level 93
Sep 8, 2022
The caveat doesn't say it isn't included because it isn't part of the USA. It probably isn't included because virtually everyone in PR speaks Spanish in the home.
buck1017
+16
Level 78
Sep 8, 2022
PR is never included in American quizzes. It's kind of frustrating. The largest cities quiz excludes PR for some reason.
loganite
+8
Level 93
Sep 14, 2022
I don't necessarily disagree, cities in Puerto Rico probably should be included on some US cities quizzes. I don't think so on this quiz, though. The point is to guess cities where Spanish is not the main language, but that have large Spanish speaking populations. If you included PR, five cities would make this list. Also, I was mainly calling out Bilzzrd's incorrect assumption that PR wasn't included because it isn't considered part of the USA. The fact QM listed it in the caveats shows he knows it's an American territory and is excluding it for some other reason.
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 92
Sep 8, 2022
The U.S. Census Bureau keeps separate statistics for territories, so Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. are almost always left out of tables not specifically pertaining to territories.
jamaltepec
+9
Level 65
Sep 14, 2022
It is hard to believe that Albuquerque doesn't have more than some of these cities.
ing
+27
Level 73
Sep 21, 2022
It just breaks bad.
jetpunker33
+1
Level 24
Sep 25, 2022
agreed. there's absolutely no way albuquerque isn't on this list
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Sep 27, 2022
I typed it in twice.
sar7
+3
Level 71
Sep 27, 2022
Albuquerque has about 109k Spanish speakers, about 14k lower than the last answer.
CrazyLikeAWhat
+48
Level 71
Mar 18, 2025
I feel like I should get credit for "Tucson" given that I spelled it correctly and the quiz did not.
Alexquiz17
+13
Level 94
Mar 18, 2025
Like that famous Italian region Tucsany
Dollyfroggy
+4
Level 63
Mar 18, 2025
Of course the one time I spell Tucson correctly is on the one quiz that the wrong spelling would have gotten credit.
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Mar 18, 2025
I should probably create an official typein for Tucson as this is not the first time this has happened.

In any case, fixed.

French2010
+3
Level 96
Mar 18, 2025
OK - hope to remember all the answers when the quiz is reset after the spelling of Tucson gets corrected. Of course that'll probably be the one I forget.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Mar 18, 2025
FYI, we don't reset for things like that.
Emchupi
+3
Level 77
Mar 19, 2025
Laredo 💀💀
kaisouzis
+2
Level 26
May 13, 2025
No San Francisco is a little surprising to me.
dasubergeek
+1
Level 81
May 13, 2025
Only about 11% of SF speaks Spanish at home, and the total city population is approximately 810,000—so that's 89,100 people. By FAR, more people speak Chinese (all dialects) in SF than Spanish.
pieman
+3
Level 58
May 13, 2025
I feel like I shouldve gotten Hialeah but I brushed it off as too small after I found that tampa and Orlando aren't here.
idontkn1
+1
Level 94
May 13, 2025
I find it very hard to believe that Denver and Albuquerque don't make this list. Just like I find it hard to believe that there are more Spanish speakers in New York than LA. But we can only go off the numbers we are given. Also helps that New York proper is such a larger portion of the metro area and it is in LA. Roughly 40% to 25%.
dasubergeek
+1
Level 81
May 13, 2025
Greater Los Angeles is about the same population as Greater New York, but since L.A. is "72 suburbs in search of a city", the population of the City of Los Angeles itself is less than half of the population of the City of New York.

There are HUGE Spanish-speaking communities in all five boroughs. There are so many Puerto Ricans that "Nuyorican" is a thing, not to mention Dominicans, Cubans, Venezuelans, Colombians, etc., etc.

And there are a few suburbs of L.A. in the list in their own right: Anaheim, Santa Ana, Long Beach... no suburbs of New York made it.

MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 64
Oct 13, 2025
Yeah, it's important to remember that within the city boundaries NY is well over twice as large as LA. Nearly 40% of NY is immigrants, giving us facts like we're tied for the second-largest Dominican city in the world (with Santiago in the DR, with 1.2 million Dominicans). I'd say about 90% of the people in my building are Hispanic.
ignorred
+1
Level 67
Jun 10, 2025
I certainly didn't get them all, but I was on the right track. Major cities anywhere (New York and Chicago), then slightly less major cities in the South (Galveston and El Paso), then probably some large spanish-speaking suburbs of LA, Houston, and Miami that I don't know the names of.
Hannover16
+1
Level 29
Oct 21, 2025
Totally wrong statistics. How are you ranking Miami so low lol... where's Orlando, Tampa..
CambodianQuizzer
+1
Level 77
Nov 5, 2025
So the U.S. Census is false?
lucabianco
+1
Level 30
Dec 4, 2025
albuquerque new mexico MY SHAYLAA
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