Housing & costs · 2024 ACS PUMS variable
HHLANP
Detailed household language
- Type
- Categorical
- Length
- 4
- Value codes
- 133
- Survey
- 2024 ACS 1-Year
HHLANPis the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS PUMS variable for detailed household language. It is a categorical field with 133 possible category codes, released in the 2024 Public Use Microdata Sample. The full list of value codes and their labels is below.
HHLANP value codes
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| bbbb | N/A (GQ/vacant) |
| 1000 | Jamaican Creole English |
| 1022 | Hawai'i Creole English |
| 1025 | Other English-based Creole languages |
| 1055 | Haitian |
| 1069 | Kabuverdianu |
| 1110 | German |
| 1120 | Swiss German |
| 1125 | Pennsylvania German |
| 1130 | Yiddish |
| 1132 | Dutch |
| 1134 | Afrikaans |
| 1140 | Swedish |
| 1141 | Danish |
| 1142 | Norwegian |
| 1155 | Italian |
| 1170 | French |
| 1175 | Cajun French |
| 1200 | Spanish |
| 1210 | Portuguese |
| 1220 | Romanian |
| 1231 | Irish |
| 1235 | Greek |
| 1242 | Albanian |
| 1250 | Russian |
| 1260 | Ukrainian |
| 1262 | Czech |
| 1263 | Slovak |
| 1270 | Polish |
| 1273 | Bulgarian |
| 1274 | Macedonian |
| 1275 | Serbo-Croatian |
| 1276 | Bosnian |
| 1277 | Croatian |
| 1278 | Serbian |
| 1281 | Lithuanian |
| 1283 | Latvian |
| 1288 | Armenian |
| 1290 | Farsi |
| 1292 | Dari |
| 1315 | Kurdish |
| 1327 | Pashto |
| 1340 | India N.E.C. |
| 1350 | Hindi |
| 1360 | Urdu |
| 1380 | Bengali |
| 1420 | Punjabi |
| 1435 | Konkani |
| 1440 | Marathi |
| 1450 | Gujarati |
| 1500 | Nepali |
| 1530 | Sinhala |
| 1540 | Other Indo-Iranian languages |
| 1564 | Other Indo-European languages |
| 1565 | Finnish |
| 1582 | Hungarian |
| 1603 | Georgian |
| 1652 | Uzbek |
| 1675 | Turkish |
| 1690 | Mongolian |
| 1730 | Telugu |
| 1737 | Kannada |
| 1750 | Malayalam |
| 1765 | Tamil |
| 1900 | Khmer |
| 1960 | Vietnamese |
| 1970 | Chinese |
| 2000 | Mandarin |
| 2030 | Min Nan Chinese |
| 2050 | Cantonese |
| 2100 | Tibetan |
| 2160 | Burmese |
| 2270 | Chin languages |
| 2350 | Karen languages |
| 2430 | Thai |
| 2475 | Lao |
| 2525 | Iu Mien |
| 2535 | Hmong |
| 2560 | Japanese |
| 2575 | Korean |
| 2715 | Malay |
| 2770 | Indonesian |
| 2850 | Other languages of Asia |
| 2910 | Filipino |
| 2920 | Tagalog |
| 2950 | Cebuano |
| 3150 | Ilocano |
| 3190 | Other Philippine languages |
| 3220 | Chamorro |
| 3270 | Marshallese |
| 3350 | Chuukese |
| 3420 | Samoan |
| 3500 | Tongan |
| 3570 | Hawaiian |
| 3600 | Other Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages |
| 4500 | Arabic |
| 4516 | Levantine Arabic |
| 4545 | Hebrew |
| 4560 | Assyrian Neo-Aramaic |
| 4565 | Chaldean Neo-Aramaic |
| 4590 | Amharic |
| 4640 | Tigrinya |
| 4830 | Oromo |
| 4840 | Somali |
| 4880 | Other Afro-Asiatic languages |
| 4900 | Nilo-Saharan languages |
| 5150 | Swahili |
| 5345 | Ganda |
| 5365 | Kinyarwanda |
| 5525 | Shona |
| 5645 | Other Bantu languages |
| 5845 | Manding languages |
| 5900 | Other Mande languages |
| 5940 | Fulah |
| 5950 | Wolof |
| 6120 | Akan (incl. Twi) |
| 6205 | Ga |
| 6230 | Gbe languages |
| 6290 | Yoruba |
| 6300 | Edoid languages |
| 6370 | Igbo |
| 6500 | Other Niger-Congo languages |
| 6795 | Other languages of Africa |
| 6800 | Aleut languages |
| 6839 | Ojibwa |
| 6930 | Apache languages |
| 6933 | Navajo |
| 7019 | Dakota languages |
| 7060 | Uto-Aztecan languages |
| 7124 | Other Native North American languages |
| 7300 | Other Middle and South American languages |
| 9500 | English-only household |
| 9999 | Other and unspecified languages |
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HHLANP — FAQ
What is the HHLANP variable in PUMS?+
HHLANP is the 2024 ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) variable for "Detailed household language". It is a categorical field 4 characters long.
What are the HHLANP codes?+
HHLANP has 133 value codes in the 2024 dictionary, each mapping a numeric code to a category label — all of them are listed on this page.
Where does the HHLANP variable come from?+
HHLANP is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2024 ACS PUMS data dictionary. PUMSdata is an independent product that makes this microdata easy to explore, and is not affiliated with the Census Bureau.