Primary non english language at home

primary_non_english_language_at_homeDemographyText#5 of 500 by model importance

Identifies the most common non-english language spoken at home within the postcode. Known or imputed for 29,978 postcodes — 88.3% of the postcodes Faraday knows.

At a glance

Coverage today
88.3%
Typical coverage
88.3%
Postcodes with a value
30.0K
Share in largest category
69.4%
Most values come
from the area
Latest collection
Dec 31, 2018

How the categories split

n = 29,978

Share of postcodes in each category. 12 categories, with 69.4% in the largest.

Spanish
69.4%
German or other West Germanic
8.0%
Other Indo-European
6.6%
French, Haitian, or Cajun
3.4%
Other and unspecified
2.9%
Other Asian and Pacific Island
2.7%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic
2.2%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)
2.1%
Tagalog (incl. Filipino)
1.0%
Arabic
0.7%
Korean
0.5%
Vietnamese
0.5%
Distinct categories
12
Share in largest category
69.4%
Share in top 3 categories
84.0%

Coverage

Latest collection: 41,117 postcodes

Coverage by state

Percentage of postcodes in each state with a value.

Coverage over time

88.3% today

Share of postcodes holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.

Dec 18Jan 25May 26

How we arrive at a value

Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.

On the person — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
From address — 0%
Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
From geography — 100%
Estimated from other people in their postcode or region.

Coverage, in context

Where 88.3% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.

catalog min 11%max 100%

Higher coverage than 15% of postcode-level attributes in the catalog

Freshness

How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of postcodes in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.

Dec 31, 2018
latest collection
93 months 8 days
since the latest collection
Dec 18

Contribution ledger

1 ingestion

1 authority contributed since Dec 2024.

ObservedIngestedCountID
2024-12-312026-09-1641,117e2d21660…

Technical details

API name
primary_non_english_language_at_home
Category
fig/demography
Type · unit
Text
Statistical type
nominal
Allowed values
null
Derivations
null
Directionality
null
Deprecation
false

In a payload

{
  "attributes": {
    "primary_non_english_language_at_home": "Spanish"
  }
}