Fast Facts

• From 1980 to 2000, the number of foreign-born residents of Littleton increased from approximately three percent to 13.2 percent. 
   
• The labor force in the 80120 zip code is 25 percent Hispanic.
   
• In 1998, Littleton Public Schools provided English as a Second Language classes to 176 students; by 2005-6, that number has grown to 670 students.
   
• In 2005-6, 49 languages other than English were spoken in Littleton Public Schools.  They are: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Cuwkuese, Creole, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Farsi, French, Fujian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, hmong, Indonesian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Lakota, Kmer, Korean, Latvian, Mien, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Nuba, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Shona, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Visayan and Yoruba.
   
• Foreign-speaking students who enter ESL classes while still very young are likely to succeed.  Littleton had three National Merit Scholars in 2004; two were born in Russia and one in China.
   
• Increasing numbers of foreign-born people are opening successful businesses in our community.