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2014 Iowa 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 IA LEP Maps

IA Raw Count Map (Description)

This map illustrates the LEP counties of Iowa with pie charts of the top five LEP counties:

Black Hawk County-Light Yellow Shading

Johnson County-Light Yellow Shading

Marshall County-Light Yellow Shading

Polk County-Pale Orange Shading

Woodbury 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 five 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 Iowa 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 Iowa’s top five counties.

Black Hawk County

Total LEP (LVW): 3,519

Language

Serbo_Croatian

Spanish

Vietnamese

Arabic

Chinese

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

1,316

1,169

245

215

138

436

% LEP LVW

38

33

7

6

4

12

 

Johnson County

Total LEP (LVW): 6,298

Language

Spanish

Chinese

Korean

Arabic

French

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

1,883

1,678

656

588

240

1,253

% LEP LVW

30

27

10

9

4

20

 

Marshall County

Total LEP (LVW): 3,699

Language

Spanish

Other Asian

Thai

Chinese

African

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

3,066

328

131

49

41

84

% LEP LVW

83

9

4

1

1

2

 

Polk County

Total LEP (LVW): 23,542

Language

Spanish

Serbo_Croatian

African

Vietnamese

Other Asian

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

11,649

2,004

1,554

1,481

1,191

5,663

% LEP LVW

49

9

7

6

5

24

 

Woodbury County

Total LEP (LVW): 6,475

Language

Spanish

Vietnamese

African

Chinese

Laotian

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

4,670

990

184

172

157

302

% LEP LVW

72

15

3

3

2

5

Each county in the State of Iowa 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 Iowa (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 Iowa.

State of Iowa

Total LEP (LVW): 87,886

Language

Spanish

Chinese

Vietnamese

Serbo_Croatian

German

All Other Languages

Raw Count LEP LVW

49,357

6,025

4,552

3,731

2,624

21,597

% LEP LVW

56

7

5

4

3

25