Italian Language Statistics

Italian language statistics for California vary depending on where you look.

Two fairly good sources are MLA and the US Census Bureau.

Here are some of the stats on language use in Calfornia and Marin County.

Accoring to MLA the stats for California residents are:

84,190

0.27%

Italian

According to the Census Bureau from 2000 Census, Marin Couny has over 22,000 Italians, with almost 9% of the population! Where are you all?? I only saw about 2000 of you during the world cup final!

California
COUNTY	AMOUNT	PERCENTAGE
Los Angeles County	270,375	2.8
Marin County	22,044	8.9
Orange County	134,871	4.7
Riverside County	61,990	4.0
Sacramento County	59,983	4.9
San Bernardino County	62,432	3.7
San Diego County	133,304	4.7
San Francisco County	39,144	5.0
San Mateo County	56,625	8.0
Sonoma County	43,955	9.6
Ventura County	38,485	5.1