page_title: Wyssachen
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Wyssachen / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Wyssachen, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Wyssachen, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Wyssachen, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Wyssachen is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern.
context_section_description: Wyssachen has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,138.  As of 2012, 3.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of -0.3%.  Migration accounted for 0.1%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.3%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,175 or 98.1%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (12 or 1.0%) and French is the third (2 or 0.2%).  There are 2 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
  As of 2013, the population was 50.7% male and 49.3% female.  The population was made up of 561 Swiss men (48.6% of the population) and 24 (2.1%) non-Swiss men.  There were 547 Swiss women (47.4%) and 22 (1.9%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 642 or about 53.6% were born in Wyssachen and lived there in 2000.  There were 359 or 30.0% who were born in the same canton, while 113 or 9.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 29 or 2.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2012, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.9%.
  As of 2000, there were 506 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 595 married individuals, 67 widows or widowers and 30 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 119 households that consist of only one person and 48 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 432 apartments (83.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 54 apartments (10.4%) were seasonally occupied and 31 apartments (6.0%) were empty.  As of 2012, the construction rate of new housing units was 0.9 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2013, was 1.8%.  In 2012, single family homes made up 35.9% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Houses in Wyssachen
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