Why El Paso Is The Most Bilingual City In America

El Paso is a very bilingual city. Our proximity to Mexico practically guarantees peeps are speaking Spanish regularly and even those that aren't fluent, understand at least some.

A ton of El Pasoans speak Spanish ... 67% according to a recent study ... and, (thanks mostly to Fort Bliss and the constant influx of military from all over the country), there's a pretty decent number of other languages being spoken here.

Now, a study by Preply says the 915 is the MOST bilingual city in the entire USA.

According to Preply, 1 in 5 Americans speaks more than one language with 21% of the country being bilingual. The percentage of bilingual peeps in El Paso, (39.44%), is double that.

The majority of the population in El Paso is Spanish-speaking, with the Spanish-speaking population surpassing non-Spanish-speaking people as the majority in 1965. With a population of 685,434, El Paso is the sixth-largest city in Texas and the 22nd-largest city in the United States.
Nearly 7 in 10 residents of El Paso speak a language other than English, and 39% of its population is bilingual. - Preply

Both L. A. and San Jose, California, are nipping at our heels with 33.46% and 32.93% respectively. San Antonio is in 4th place with 29.81% and New York, "the Melting Pot" of the USA, only making it to 5th place. (26.03%)

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Thanks to the military and a once, "permanent" German Air Force presence in El Paso, we also have quite a few folks around here who are fluent in German.

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