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Spanish medical interpreters

Real-time medical interpretation, on demand, in Spanish, in seconds, at a flat, predictable rate.

Dialects supported by Opalite:Mexican SpanishEuropean Spanish (Castilian)Argentinian SpanishCaribbean SpanishPuerto Rican SpanishDominican SpanishColombian SpanishGuatemalan Spanish
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There are 41.2 million speakers of Spanish in the United States.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

California

10,510,000Spanish speakers

28.3% of residents · #1 nationwide

Interpreters in CA

Darker states have more Spanish speakers; shading is logarithmic, relative to the state with the most speakers.

Spanish speakers by state
StateSpeakers
California10,510,000
Texas7,717,000
Florida4,470,000
New York2,802,000
Illinois1,628,000
New Jersey1,440,000
Arizona1,343,000
Georgia801,100
North Carolina753,100
Pennsylvania636,800
Massachusetts623,200
Washington620,200
Colorado600,600
Virginia595,200
Nevada591,300
New Mexico510,400
Maryland494,400
Connecticut413,800
Oregon353,300
Utah310,300
Indiana295,400
Michigan274,900
Oklahoma274,300
Tennessee271,500
Ohio259,600
Wisconsin257,000
South Carolina226,400
Kansas212,200
Minnesota207,300
Louisiana161,900
Alabama156,800
Arkansas155,500
Missouri150,400
Nebraska140,900
Idaho137,000
Rhode Island131,500
Iowa125,600
Kentucky115,800
Delaware66,430
Mississippi66,350
District of Columbia57,930
New Hampshire32,460
Hawaii31,420
Wyoming25,150
Alaska23,630
South Dakota17,790
West Virginia17,110
Montana14,550
North Dakota13,880
Maine11,920
Vermont7,122

Where Spanish is spoken at home

  1. 1California10,510,000
  2. 2Texas7,717,000
  3. 3Florida4,470,000
  4. 4New York2,802,000
  5. 5Illinois1,628,000
  6. 6New Jersey1,440,000
  7. 7Arizona1,343,000
  8. 8Georgia801,100
  9. 9North Carolina753,100
  10. 10Pennsylvania636,800

State counts reflect the 15 most reported non-English languages in each state’s ACS table. States where Spanish falls outside the top 15 are shown without shading; the national total includes every state.

16.1 million

speakers of Spanish speak English less than “very well”: the federal threshold for needing language assistance.

39%

of Spanish speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.

10.5 million

people speak Spanish at home in California alone.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Common questions about Spanish interpretation

Three states hold 55% of the nation’s Spanish speakers, and Spanish ranks in the published top-15 language tables of all 50 states and Washington, DC.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

California has the largest Spanish-speaking population (10.5 million speakers), followed by Texas (7.7 million) and Florida (4.5 million) (ACS 2017-2021).

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