Limited English Proficient Data with Income and Poverty Overlay Massachusetts

LEP Population in MA

Income in MA

Most Common LEP Languages in MA Spanish (38.7%) Portuguese (16%) Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin) (8.4%) French Creole (4.6%) Vietnamese (4.5%) Russian (3.3%)

Service Area Examples

MetroWest Legal Services Framingham, MA Area Served: Acton, Ashland, Bedford, Bellingham, Carlisle, Concord, Dedham, Dover, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Marlborough, Maynard, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville, Sharon, Sherborn, South Walpole, Stow, Sudbury, Walpole, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, Wrentham Elder Only Area Served: Canton, Northborough, Southborough, Westborough

Language Spoken of LEP Population – MWLS Area Language Spoken of LEP Population Under 200% Of Poverty – MWLS Area Language SpokenPopulationPercentLanguage SpokenPopulationPercent Portuguese 11, %Portuguese 5, % Spanish 10, %Spanish 4, % Chinese* (Cantonese and Mandarin) 8, % Chinese* (Cantonese and Mandarin) 3, % Russian 2,2625.1%Arabic % Italian 2,2535.0%Italian % French Creole 1,9664.4%Vietnamese % Arabic 1,9304.3%Korean % Vietnamese 1,6453.7%French Creole % French 1,0562.4%Russian %

Greater Boston Legal Services Boston, MA Area Served: Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Canton, Chelsea, Cohasset, Everett, Hingham, Holbrook, Hull, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Milton, Newton, Norwell, Quincy, Randolph, Revere, Scituate, Stoneham, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown, Weymouth, Winthrop, Wollaston Elder Only Area Served: Acton, Arlington, Bedford, Boxborough, Burlington, Cambridge, Carlisle, Concord, Harvard, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Maynard, North Reading, Reading, Somerville, Stow, Wilmington, Winchester, Woburn

Community Legal Aid All Offices (Greenfield, North Adam, Northampton, Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester) Areas Served: Worcester, Hampden, Berkshire, Franklin and Hampshire Counties

Language Spoken of LEP Population in Worcester – PUMA 2300 Language SpokenPopulationPercent Spanish 15, % Vietnamese 3,0819.7% Portuguese 2,5838.1% Albanian 1,6425.1% Kru, Ibo, Yoruba 1,4804.6% Polish % Chinese % Russian % French % Arabic % Other 4, % Total 31,909 Language Spoken of LEP Population in all CLA Area Language SpokenPopulationPercent Spanish 56, % Portuguese 6,6486.2% Vietnamese 5,8085.4% Polish 4,4564.1% Chinese* (Cantonese and Mandarin) 3,9173.6% Russian 3,7883.5% French 3,5963.3% Kru, Ibo, Yoruba 1,7681.6% Albanian 1,6421.5% Arabic 1,2971.2%

For all service area data, visit: lep-poverty-data-ma Source: American Community Survey, Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), BRA Research Division Analysis