Editing Yiddish (section)

==== Present U.S. speaker population ====

In the [[2000 United States Census]], 178,945 people in the United States reported speaking Yiddish at home. Of these speakers, 113,515 lived in [[New York (state)|New York]] (63.43% of American Yiddish speakers); 18,220 in [[Florida]] (10.18%); 9,145 in [[New Jersey]] (5.11%); and 8,950 in [[California]] (5.00%). The remaining states with speaker populations larger than 1,000 are [[Pennsylvania]] (5,445), [[Ohio]] (1,925), [[Michigan]] (1,945), [[Massachusetts]] (2,380), [[Maryland]] (2,125), [[Illinois]] (3,510), [[Connecticut]] (1,710), and [[Arizona]] (1,055). The population is largely elderly: 72,885 of the speakers were older than 65, 66,815 were between 18 and 64, and only 39,245 were age 17 or lower.<ref>[http://www.mla.org/map_data_states&lang_id=609&mode=lang_tops&a=&ea=&order=r Language by State: Yiddish] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919151951/http://www.mla.org/map_data_states%26lang_id%3D609%26mode%3Dlang_tops%26a%3D%26ea%3D%26order%3Dr |date=September 19, 2015}}, [[Modern Language Association|MLA]] Language Map Data Center, based on U.S. Census data. Retrieved December 25, 2006.</ref>

In the six years since the 2000 census, the 2006 [[American Community Survey]] reflected an estimated 15 percent decline of people speaking Yiddish at home in the U.S. to 152,515.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |title=U.S. Census website |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=October 18, 2009 }}</ref> In 2011, the number of persons in the United States above the age of five speaking Yiddish at home was 160,968.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf#page=12&zoom=auto,-265,62 |title=Camille Ryan: ''Language Use in the United States: 2011'', Issued August 2013 |access-date=January 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205101044/http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf#page=12&zoom=auto,-265,62 |archive-date=February 5, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 88% of them were living in four [[metropolitan area]]s – New York City and another metropolitan area [[Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area|just north of it]], Miami, and Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Basu |first1=Tanya |title=Oy Vey: Yiddish Has a Problem |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/yiddish-has-a-problem/379658/ |work=The Atlantic |date=September 9, 2014}}</ref>

There are a few predominantly [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] communities in the United States in which Yiddish remains the majority language including concentrations in the [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]], [[Borough Park, Brooklyn|Borough Park]], and [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]] neighborhoods of Brooklyn. In [[Kiryas Joel, New York|Kiryas Joel]] in [[Orange County, New York]], in the 2000 census, nearly 90% of residents of Kiryas Joel reported speaking Yiddish at home.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mla.org/census_data_results&state_id=36&place_id=39853|title=Data center results] Modern Language Association]|access-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923112824/http://www.mla.org/census_data_results%26state_id%3D36%26place_id%3D39853|archive-date=September 23, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/opinion/yiddish-hebrew-language-thriving.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |title=Opinion &#124; Yiddish is a Supposedly Dying Language That's Thrillingly Alive |date=November 28, 2024 |last1=McWhorter |first1=John }}</ref>