page_title: Renens
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Renens / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: ECAL English: Renens, Vaud, Switzerland
context_page_description: Renens is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It is located in the district of Ouest Lausannois, and is a suburb of the city of Lausanne. It is the fourth largest city in the canton. It is considered a very multiethnic town, as more than 50% of the inhabitants are resident foreign nationals from about a hundred different countries.
context_section_description: Renens has a population (as of December 2018) of 20,927.  As of 2008, 51.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 14.4%.  It has changed at a rate of 10.4% due to migration and at a rate of 5.9% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (13,576 or 73.8%), with Italian being second most common (1,214 or 6.6%) and Portuguese being third (810 or 4.4%).  There are 567 people who speak German and 11 people who speak Romansh.
  Of the population in the municipality 2,992 or about 16.3% were born in Renens and lived there in 2000.  There were 4,431 or 24.1% who were born in the same canton, while 2,566 or 13.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 7,854 or 42.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008, there were 92 live births to Swiss citizens and 141 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 108 deaths of Swiss citizens and 29 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 16 while the foreign population increased by 112.  There were 3 Swiss men and 3 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 287 non-Swiss men and 286 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 358 and the non-Swiss population increased by 208 people.  This represents a population growth rate of 3.1%.
  The age distribution, as of 2009, in Renens is; 2,091 children or 10.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 2,102 teenagers or 11.0% are between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 3,103 people or 16.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  3,009 people or 15.7% are between 30 and 39, 2,931 people or 15.3% are between 40 and 49, and 2,201 people or 11.5% are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 1,778 people or 9.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 1,134 people or 5.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 655 people or 3.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 118 people or 0.6% who are 90 and older.
  As of 2000, there were 7,576 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 8,731 married individuals, 913 widows or widowers and 1,186 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 8,196 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household.  There were 3,213 households that consist of only one person and 397 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 8,409 households that answered this question, 38.2% were households made up of just one person and there were 51 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 2,034 married couples without children, 2,245 married couples with children  There were 494 single parents with a child or children.  There were 159 households that were made up of unrelated people and 213 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 600 single family homes (or 41.3% of the total) out of a total of 1,452 inhabited buildings.  There were 496 multi-family buildings (34.2%), along with 248 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (17.1%) and 108 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (7.4%).  Of the single family homes 60 were built before 1919, while 83 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single family homes (170) were built between 1981 and 1990.  The most multi-family homes (137) were built between 1946 and 1960 and the next most (89) were built before 1919.  There were 17 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000.
  In 2000 there were 8,959 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 3,095.  There were 919 single room apartments and 708 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartme
caption: ECAL building in Renens
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