State vs. Local Needs
Review the charts on this page to learn more about the most commonly spoken languages among Medicare patients with LEP at the state and local level in Michigan.
Arabic, Spanish, and Chinese are the most common languages spoken by Medicare patients in the state of Michigan. However, in Dearborn, Michigan, the most common languages are Arabic and Romanian. If you provide health care in Dearborn, you might offer more language services for Romanian speakers than in other parts of Michigan.
State: Michigan
Figure 4: Most commonly spoken languages among Medicare patients with LEP in Michigan
| Language | % Population Speaking Language |
|---|---|
| Arabic | 21% |
| Spanish | 19% |
| Chinese | 6% |
| Syriac | 6% |
| Polish | 6% |
| Italian | 5% |
| Greek | 4% |
| Russian | 3% |
| Vietnamese | 3% |
| Serbo-Croatian | 3% |
| Korean | 2% |
| Japanese | 2% |
| Albanian | 2% |
| Gujarati | 2% |
| Tagalog | 2% |
| Nepali, Bengali, German, Urdu, French, and Hindi | 1% |
| Macedonian, Cantonese, Hungarian, Dutch, Romanian, Jamaican, Creole, Serbian, Hmong, Panjabi, Mandarin, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Other Asian language, Persian, Other Indo-Euro, Czech, Hebrew, Finnish, Laotian, Cushite, Malayalam, and Turkish | Less than 1% |
Local: Dearborn, Michigan
Figure 5: Most commonly spoken languages among Medicare patients with LEP in Dearborn, MI
| Language | % Population Speaking Language |
|---|---|
| Arabic | 74% |
| Romanian | 5% |
| Spanish | 4% |
| Greek | 4% |
| Hindi | 4% |
| Tagalog | 3% |
| Polish | 2% |
| Hungarian | 2% |
| Italian | 1% |