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Wilkes-Barre city is a Census place in PA. Its published county relationships are Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. 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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Wilkes-Barre city has an estimated 41,854 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 Wilkes-Barre: Spanish: 10,062 ±930; French, Haitian, or Cajun: 369 ±211; Other Asian and Pacific Island languages: 300 ±247. 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 | 41,854 | 449 |
| Speak only English | 30,216 | 1,068 |
| Spanish | 10,062 | 930 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 369 | 211 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 200 | 152 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 184 | 87 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 224 | 132 |
| Korean | 17 | 24 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 46 | 42 |
| Vietnamese | 33 | 43 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 25 | 37 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 300 | 247 |
| Arabic | 29 | 38 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 149 | 94 |
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 Wilkes-Barre.
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