 As of 2010, 85.87 % (6,299,127) of Virginia residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 6.41 % (470,058) spoke Spanish, 0.77 % (56,518) Korean, 0.63 % (45,881) Vietnamese, 0.57 % (42,418) Chinese (which includes Mandarin), and Tagalog was spoken as a main language by 0.56 % (40,724) of the population over the age of five. In total, 14.13 % (1,036,442) of Virginia's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English. English was passed as the Commonwealth's official language by statutes in 1981 and again in 1996, though the status is not mandated by the Constitution of Virginia.
