For businesses in Lafayette, LA, AnSer offers live answering and message taking through its nationwide service, including after-hours and overflow call handling. Use the local context below when discussing your hours, call instructions and language requirements with our team.
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Lafayette city is a Census place in LA. Its published county relationships are Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. 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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Lafayette city has an estimated 114,156 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 Lafayette: Spanish: 6,051 ±1,130; French, Haitian, or Cajun: 2,862 ±426; Other Indo-European languages: 1,144 ±508. 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 | 114,156 | 687 |
| Speak only English | 101,711 | 1,543 |
| Spanish | 6,051 | 1,130 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 2,862 | 426 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 57 | 42 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 96 | 94 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 1,144 | 508 |
| Korean | 41 | 48 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 214 | 132 |
| Vietnamese | 558 | 290 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 6 | 12 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 539 | 314 |
| Arabic | 505 | 440 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 372 | 226 |
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 Lafayette.
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