The 3 most commonly spoken languages in every New York City neighborhood

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The most commonly spoken language in most neighborhoods is English.

The most commonly spoken language in most neighborhoods is English.

Several neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and northern Manhattan and Queens have Spanish as the most common language spoken at home. Brooklyn Community District 13, covering Brighton Beach and Coney Island, has Russian as its most common language.

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The second most commonly spoken language in most neighborhoods is Spanish.

The second most commonly spoken language in most neighborhoods is Spanish.

Several neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn have other languages falling in the second-place spot.

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Here's a closeup of Brooklyn and Queens, highlighting some of the second most common languages that aren't English or Spanish.

Here's a closeup of Brooklyn and Queens, highlighting some of the second most common languages that aren't English or Spanish.

Pockets of Chinese and Russian show up as second most common languages, and Haitian or French Creole (marked as "Creole" on the map) is common in a large swath of east Brooklyn.

In most neighborhoods, neither English nor Spanish is the third most commonly spoken language.

In most neighborhoods, neither English nor Spanish is the third most commonly spoken language.

In the next slides, we'll take a closer look at each of the city's boroughs.

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Here's the third most commonly spoken language in each neighborhood in Manhattan and the Bronx.

Here's the third most commonly spoken language in each neighborhood in Manhattan and the Bronx.

Chinese and French are common in Manhattan, while the languages from the African Kru language family are the third most common in several Bronx neighborhoods.

Here's the third most common language in each Brooklyn and Queens neighborhood.

Here's the third most common language in each Brooklyn and Queens neighborhood.

A wide mix of languages show up in these two boroughs.

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And here's the third most common language in each neighborhood in Staten Island.

And here's the third most common language in each neighborhood in Staten Island.