For businesses in Des Moines, WA, 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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Des Moines city is a Census place in WA. Its published county relationships are King County, Washington. 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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Des Moines city has an estimated 30,434 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 Des Moines: Spanish: 4,265 ±860; Other and unspecified languages: 1,435 ±723; Other Indo-European languages: 1,145 ±733. 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 | 30,434 | 385 |
| Speak only English | 19,724 | 1,171 |
| Spanish | 4,265 | 860 |
| French, Haitian, or Cajun | 35 | 30 |
| German or other West Germanic languages | 52 | 47 |
| Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages | 649 | 770 |
| Other Indo-European languages | 1,145 | 733 |
| Korean | 176 | 131 |
| Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese) | 174 | 122 |
| Vietnamese | 999 | 397 |
| Tagalog (including Filipino) | 566 | 338 |
| Other Asian and Pacific Island languages | 786 | 372 |
| Arabic | 428 | 331 |
| Other and unspecified languages | 1,435 | 723 |
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 Des Moines.
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