page_title: Sierre
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Sierre / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Avenue General Guisan, a main street in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland.
context_page_description: Sierre is the capital of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a population of 16,332.
  Sierre is nicknamed City of the Sun for its average of 300 days of sunshine a year.
  It is the last official French speaking city in Valais before the French–German language border of the canton located at the forêt de Finges, few kilometres after the town. A German-speaking minority lives in Sierre, as it counts around 8% of the population.
context_section_description: Sierre has a population (as of December 2018) of 16,801.  As of 2008, 27.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 12.3%.  It has changed at a rate of 11.9% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (10,710 or 74.8%) as their first language, German is the second most common (1,803 or 12.6%) and Italian is the third (765 or 5.3%).  There are 6 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 48.4% male and 51.6% female.  The population was made up of 5,339 Swiss men (33.8% of the population) and 2,305 (14.6%) non-Swiss men.  There were 6,123 Swiss women (38.8%) and 2,020 (12.8%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 5,363 or about 37.5% were born in Sierre and lived there in 2000.  There were 3,705 or 25.9% who were born in the same canton, while 1,412 or 9.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 3,273 or 22.9% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.1%.
  As of 2000, there were 5,651 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 6,891 married individuals, 974 widows or widowers and 801 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 6,016 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 2,133 households that consist of only one person and 319 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 5,728 apartments (84.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 875 apartments (12.9%) were seasonally occupied and 205 apartments (3.0%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 3.4 new units per 1,000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 1.15%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Avenue General Guisan in Sierre
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