Japanese medical interpreters
Secure, real-time medical interpretation in Japanese, available instantly on the phones, tablets, and computers your teams already use.
There are 460,300 speakers of Japanese in the United States.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
Darker states have more Japanese speakers; shading is logarithmic, relative to the state with the most speakers.
| State | Speakers |
|---|---|
| California | 136,000 |
| Hawaii | 38,210 |
| Washington | 26,990 |
| Oregon | 10,480 |
| Ohio | 10,110 |
| Nevada | 7,000 |
| Colorado | 6,443 |
| Utah | 5,567 |
| Indiana | 5,502 |
| Tennessee | 4,398 |
| Kentucky | 3,511 |
| South Carolina | 2,710 |
| Alabama | 2,411 |
| Idaho | 1,794 |
| Nebraska | 1,558 |
| Alaska | 1,488 |
| District of Columbia | 1,029 |
| West Virginia | 925 |
| Mississippi | 731 |
| North Dakota | 620 |
| Wyoming | 604 |
| Montana | 436 |
| Vermont | 372 |
State counts reflect the 15 most reported non-English languages in each state’s ACS table. States where Japanese falls outside the top 15 are shown without shading; the national total includes every state.
181,000
speakers of Japanese speak English less than “very well”: the federal threshold for needing language assistance.
39%
of Japanese speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.
136,000
people speak Japanese at home in California alone.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
Common questions about Japanese interpretation
Three states hold 44% of the nation’s Japanese speakers, and Japanese ranks in the published top-15 language tables of 23 states.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
460,300 people speak Japanese at home in the U.S., and 181,000 of them speak English less than “very well” (ACS 2017-2021).
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