Housing & costs · 2024 ACS PUMS variable
LANP
Language spoken at home
- Type
- Categorical
- Length
- 4
- Value codes
- 132
- Survey
- 2024 ACS 1-Year
LANPis the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS PUMS variable for language spoken at home. It is a categorical field with 132 possible category codes, released in the 2024 Public Use Microdata Sample. The full list of value codes and their labels is below.
LANP 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 |
| 9999 | Other and unspecified languages |
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LANP — FAQ
What is the LANP variable in PUMS?+
LANP is the 2024 ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) variable for "Language spoken at home". It is a categorical field 4 characters long.
What are the LANP codes?+
LANP has 132 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 LANP variable come from?+
LANP 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.