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Merrillville town is a Census place in IN. Its published county relationships are Lake County, Indiana. 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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Merrillville town has an estimated 35,089 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 Merrillville: Spanish: 2,481 ±673; Other Indo-European languages: 494 ±370; Other and unspecified languages: 426 ±301. 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 | 35,089 | 367 |
| Speak only English | 31,112 | 907 |
| Spanish | 2,481 | 673 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 40 | 67 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 111 | 110 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 201 | 109 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 494 | 370 |
| Korean | 9 | 15 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 48 | 70 |
| Vietnamese | 6 | 10 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 115 | 93 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 46 | 62 |
| Arabic | 0 | 27 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 426 | 301 |
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 Merrillville.
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