page_title: Hilterfingen
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Hilterfingen / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Hilterfingen, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Hilterfingen, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Hilterfingen, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Hilterfingen is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Hilterfingen has a population (as of December 2018) of 4,047.  As of 2012, 8.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of 2.1%.  Migration accounted for 2.6%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.8%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (3,593 or 94.0%) as their first language, French is the second most common (35 or 0.9%) and English is the third (30 or 0.8%).  There are 16 people who speak Italian and 3 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 45.5% male and 54.5% female.  The population was made up of 1,653 Swiss men (41.6% of the population) and 156 (3.9%) non-Swiss men.  There were 2,025 Swiss women (50.9%) and 143 (3.6%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 624 or about 16.3% were born in Hilterfingen and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,928 or 50.5% who were born in the same canton, while 689 or 18.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 411 or 10.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2012, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 17.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 25.9%.
  As of 2000, there were 1,460 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 1,802 married individuals, 348 widows or widowers and 211 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 735 households that consist of only one person and 71 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 1,777 apartments (88.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 169 apartments (8.5%) were seasonally occupied and 52 apartments (2.6%) were empty.  As of 2012, the construction rate of new housing units was 6.2 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2013, was 0.1%.  In 2012, single family homes made up 56.6% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
  Hünibach had a population of 369 before it joined Hilterfingen in 1956
caption: A boat ramp, sail up restaurant and Hilterfingen village
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