Amazing map reveals the 60-plus languages spoken throughout Bristol

Bristol is home to people from all over the world, with more than 69 languages spoken among the nearly half a million people who call the city home.

These different languages across the city can now be visualised thanks to maps and figures produced by the Office for National Statistics using data from the 2021 census.

The maps chart the primary spoken language by residents in the home and the percentage of residents who speak it, giving you an idea of just how multicultural Bristol is nowadays.

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According to the figures, 89.88% of people aged three years and over in Bristol City speak English as their primary language, with over 69 other tongues also being spoken. The most widely spoken language after English was Polish, used by 1.54% of the population, followed by Spanish (0.84%), Romanian (0.67%), Arabic (0.51 %) and Italian (0.48%).

The data can also show detailed analysis of neighbourhoods where more than one language is spoken in the home, with Barton Hill and Upper Easton being the areas where residents were more likely to speak more than one tongue within a household. (ONS)

The data can also show detailed analysis of neighbourhoods where more than one language is spoken in the home. Barton Hill and Upper Easton had the most multi-lingual homes, with 21.9% of households in the former and 16.6% in the latter having members with different primary languages.

Conversely, just 1.5% of Whitchurch Park households had members with different primary languages.

Top 20 most prevalent non-English languages spoken in Bristol

Polish - 1.54 %

Spanish - 0.84 %

Romanian - 0.67 %

Arabic - 0.51 %

Italian - 0.48 %

Chinese (non Mandarin or Cantonese) - 0.41 %

Portuguese - 0.38 %

French - 0.36 %

Urdu - 0.34 %

Hungarian - 0.28 %

Panjabi - 0.25 %

Greek - 0.23 %

Bulgarian - 0.21 %

Beghali - 0.18 %

Russian - 0.16 %

Kurdish - 0.15 %

Turkish - 0.12 %

Tagalog - 0.11 %

German - 0.1 %

Farsi - 0.1 %

Mandarin Chinese - 0.1 %

Cantonese Chinese - 0.1 %

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