North Yorkshire
United Kingdom, unitary authority, population 627,629, first language English.
Data as of 1 Nov 2026 · GB-NYK · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet
Language stack
The roles this state's languages play, with a share where a census gives one.
How this is measured
A label comes from the States sheet and has no share. A share comes from a census and names its basis. Both can exist for one language.
Labels from the States sheet; no census share yet.
Official-language count: 1. Diversity below is country-level.
Languages of United Kingdom
Country-level shares: CLDR, with a census or survey where CLDR has none. They overlap and are never normalised.
How this is measured
Effective number of languages 1.00, Greenberg diversity 0.00, both on the raw shares and country-level.
Largest 12 of 24 languages CLDR records for United Kingdom.
How far lingua francas reach
Share able to hold a conversation, first or second language.
How this is measured
Each row carries its source tier. A Tier 1 census figure is this state's own; a Tier 3 figure is the country's, not this state's.
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AberdeenshireEnglish
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Ards and North DownEnglish
Argyll and ButeEnglish
Bath and North East SomersetEnglish
BedfordEnglish
BelfastEnglish
Blackburn with DarwenEnglish
BlackpoolEnglish
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Blaenau GwentEnglish
Bracknell ForestEnglish
BridgendEnglish
Brighton and HoveEnglish
BuckinghamshireEnglish
CaerphillyEnglish
CambridgeshireEnglish
CardiffEnglish
CarmarthenshireEnglish
Causeway Coast and GlensEnglish
Central BedfordshireEnglish
CeredigionEnglish
Cheshire EastEnglish
Cheshire West and ChesterEnglish
City of BristolEnglish
City of EdinburghEnglish
City of Kingston upon HullEnglish
ClackmannanshireEnglish
ConwyEnglish
CornwallEnglish
County DurhamEnglish
County of HerefordshireEnglish
CumberlandEnglish
DarlingtonEnglish
DenbighshireEnglish
DerbyEnglish
DerbyshireEnglish
Derry City and StrabaneEnglish
DevonEnglish
DorsetEnglish
Dumfries and GallowayEnglish
Dundee CityEnglish
East AyrshireEnglish
East DunbartonshireEnglish
East LothianEnglish
East RenfrewshireEnglish
East Riding of YorkshireEnglish
East SussexEnglish
EssexEnglish
FalkirkEnglish
Fermanagh and OmaghEnglish
FifeEnglish
FlintshireEnglish
Glasgow CityEnglish
GloucestershireEnglish
Greater LondonEnglish
Greater ManchesterEnglish
GwyneddEnglish
HaltonEnglish
HampshireEnglish
HartlepoolEnglish
HertfordshireEnglish
HighlandEnglish
InverclydeEnglish
Isle of AngleseyEnglish
Isle of WightEnglish
Isles of ScillyEnglish
KentEnglish
LancashireEnglish
LeicesterEnglish
LeicestershireEnglish
LincolnshireEnglish
Lisburn and CastlereaghEnglish
LutonEnglish
MedwayEnglish
MerseysideEnglish
Merthyr TydfilEnglish
Mid UlsterEnglish
Mid and East AntrimEnglish
MiddlesbroughEnglish
MidlothianEnglish
Milton KeynesEnglish
MonmouthshireEnglish
MorayEnglish
Neath Port TalbotEnglish
NewportEnglish
Newry, Mourne and DownEnglish
NorfolkEnglish
North AyrshireEnglish
North East LincolnshireEnglish
North LanarkshireEnglish
North LincolnshireEnglish
North NorthamptonshireEnglish
North SomersetEnglish
NorthumberlandEnglish
NottinghamEnglish
NottinghamshireEnglish
Orkney IslandsEnglish
Outer HebridesEnglish
OxfordshireEnglish
PembrokeshireEnglish
Perth and KinrossEnglish
PeterboroughEnglish
PlymouthEnglish
PortsmouthEnglish
PowysEnglish
ReadingEnglish
Redcar and ClevelandEnglish
RenfrewshireEnglish
Rhondda Cynon TafEnglish
RutlandEnglish
Scottish BordersEnglish
Shetland IslandsEnglish
ShropshireEnglish
SloughEnglish
SomersetEnglish
South AyrshireEnglish
South GloucestershireEnglish
South LanarkshireEnglish
South YorkshireEnglish
SouthamptonEnglish
Southend-on-SeaEnglish
StaffordshireEnglish
StirlingEnglish
Stockton-on-TeesEnglish
Stoke-on-TrentEnglish
SuffolkEnglish
SurreyEnglish
SwanseaEnglish
SwindonEnglish
Telford and WrekinEnglish
The Vale of GlamorganEnglish
ThurrockEnglish
TorbayEnglish
TorfaenEnglish
Tyne and WearEnglish
WarringtonEnglish
WarwickshireEnglish
West BerkshireEnglish
West DunbartonshireEnglish
West LothianEnglish
West MidlandsEnglish
West NorthamptonshireEnglish
West SussexEnglish
West YorkshireEnglish
Westmorland and FurnessEnglish
WiltshireEnglish
Windsor and MaidenheadEnglish
WokinghamEnglish
WorcestershireEnglish
WrexhamEnglish
YorkEnglish
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Where these numbers come from
- Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
- Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
- Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair common spoken language and linguistic proximity (neighbours, linked-world score, pairs pages).
- States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
- Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
- Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).
Labels are the States sheet's. Shares marked country-level are CLDR's for the whole country, not a measurement of this state. See Method.