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El Cajon city is a Census place in CA. Its published county relationships are San Diego County, California. Use the service address to confirm county-based assignments; a postal city name alone does not establish a Census boundary.
Geography source: 2025 Census county relationships; 2025 Gazetteer. These boundaries do not establish an AnSer office or your business’s service territory.
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El Cajon city has an estimated 97,168 residents aged five and over in the 2020–2024 ACS. The table below breaks down home-language categories for this place; it does not measure your business’s callers.
Reported local estimates to compare with your caller records in El Cajon: Spanish: 18,999 ±1,774; Arabic: 10,674 ±1,514; Other and unspecified languages: 5,272 ±1,110. These are the largest point estimates among non-English home-language categories whose estimates exceed their margins of error. Differences have not been tested for statistical significance. Identify the actual caller language within grouped categories before discussing coverage.
| Language spoken at home | Estimated residents | Margin of error (±) |
|---|---|---|
| All residents aged 5 and over | 97,168 | 893 |
| Speak only English | 53,723 | 2,204 |
| Spanish | 18,999 | 1,774 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 396 | 296 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 190 | 139 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 297 | 171 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 4,701 | 1,240 |
| Korean | 107 | 84 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 496 | 282 |
| Vietnamese | 417 | 336 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 1,198 | 426 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 698 | 200 |
| Arabic | 10,674 | 1,514 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 5,272 | 1,110 |
Estimates have uncertainty; home language does not establish preferred call language or provider capabilities. Read the data definitions, limitations and planning method.
Source: Census table C16001 for El Cajon.
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