page_title: Sigriswil
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Sigriswil / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Merligen, municipality of Sigriswil, canton of Bern, Switzerland Esperanto: Merligen, komunumo Sigriswil, Kantono Berno, Svislando Deutsch: Merligen, Gemeinde Sigriswil, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Sigriswil is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Sigriswil has a population (as of December 2018) of 4,833.  As of 2012, 10.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of 1.8%.  Migration accounted for 2.2%, while births and deaths accounted for -1.2%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (4,272 or 95.0%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (41 or 0.9%) and French is the third (31 or 0.7%).  There are 12 people who speak Italian and 4 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 48.2% male and 51.8% female.  The population was made up of 1,989 Swiss men (43.3% of the population) and 228 (5.0%) non-Swiss men.  There were 2,163 Swiss women (47.0%) and 218 (4.7%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 1,851 or about 41.2% were born in Sigriswil and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,420 or 31.6% who were born in the same canton, while 606 or 13.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 441 or 9.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2012, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 15.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 27.6%.
  As of 2000, there were 1,677 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 2,191 married individuals, 402 widows or widowers and 226 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 799 households that consist of only one person and 113 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 1,833 apartments (67.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 723 apartments (26.5%) were seasonally occupied and 169 apartments (6.2%) were empty.  As of 2012, the construction rate of new housing units was 5.6 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2013, was 0.4%.  In 2012, single family homes made up 34.8% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Merligen village along Lake Thun
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