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2014 Delaware Mapping LEP Populations in Your Community - Number by County

State or Territory
Year
2014
Map Level
county
Population Count Type
number
Text Version
Description of DE LEP Maps

DE Raw Count Map (Description)

This map illustrates the LEP counties of Delaware with pie charts of the top three LEP counties:

Kent County-Light Yellow Shading

New Castle County-Pale Orange Shading

Sussex County-Light Yellow Shading

Each county is color shaded to indicate the total number of limited English proficient (LEP) persons in the county. We have defined LEP persons as individuals five years and over who speak a language other than English at home and who have indicated that they speak English less than very well (LVW). For each of the top three LEP counties, we have provided a pie chart that breaks down the top five languages spoken in the county (according to the total number of each language spoken) with the remaining languages in a sixth category called “All Other Languages”.

Raw Counts:

The colors correspond to the total number of LEP individuals in the county as follows:

·        Pale White: (<=1K)

·        Light Yellow: (>1K AND <=10K)

·        Pale Orange: (>10K AND <=50K)

·        Orange: (>50K AND <=100K)

·        Dark Orange: (>100K AND <=250K)

·        Brown: (>250K AND <=750K)

·        Dark Brown: (>750K)

The counties in Delaware are shaded to indicate the number of limited English proficient (LEP) persons in the county. We have defined LEP persons as individuals five years or older who speak a language other than English at home and who have indicated that they speak English less than very well (LVW). The tables explain the raw count number and percentage of LEP persons by language spoken for Delaware’s top three counties.

Kent County

Total LEP (LVW): 4,375

Language

Spanish

French Creole

Other West Germanic

German

Tagalog

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

1,906

468

371

308

207

1,115

% LEP LVW

44

11

8

7

5

25

 

New Castle County

Total LEP (LVW): 26,130

Language

Spanish

Chinese

Gujarati

Korean

French

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

15,776

3,034

932

589

576

5,223

% LEP LVW

60

12

4

2

2

20

 

Sussex County

Total LEP (LVW): 9,219

Language

Spanish

French Creole

Vietnamese

Russian

Chinese

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

7,387

686

219

132

117

678

% LEP LVW

80

8

2

2

1

7

 

Each county in the State of Delaware is color shaded to indicate the total number of limited English proficient (LEP) persons in the county. We have defined LEP persons as individuals five years and over who speak a language other than English at home and who have indicated that they speak English less than very well (LVW). We have provided a pie chart that breaks down the top five languages spoken in the entire State of Delaware (according to the total number of each language spoken) with the remaining languages in a sixth category called “All Other Languages”. The table below explains the raw count number and percentage of LEP persons by language spoken for the State of Delaware.

State of Delaware

Total LEP (LVW): 39,724

Language

Spanish

Chinese

French

Gujarati

Other Asian

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

25,069

3,265

1,281

1,104

778

8,227

% LEP LVW

63

8

3

3

2

21