page_title: Saignelégier
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Saignelégier / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Level crossing at Saignelégier, canton of Jura, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Samnivela fervojtransirejo en Saignelégier, Kantono Ĵuraso, SvislandoDeutsch: Niveaubahnübergang Saignelégier, Kanton Jura, Schweiz
context_page_description: Saignelégier is a municipality in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district of Franches-Montagnes. On 1 January 2009, the formerly independent municipalities of Goumois and Les Pommerats merged into Saignelégier.
  The bog and nature preserve around étang de la Gruère is located in the municipality. It is also the home of noted brewery Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes.
context_section_description: Saignelégier has a population (as of December 2018) of 2,609.  As of 2008, 8.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 10%.  Migration accounted for 10.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.4%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (1,961 or 91.4%) as their first language, German is the second most common (69 or 3.2%) and Italian is the third (20 or 0.9%).  There are 3 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female.  The population was made up of 1,151 Swiss men (45.5% of the population) and 100 (4.0%) non-Swiss men.  There were 1,177 Swiss women (46.6%) and 99 (3.9%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 721 or about 33.6% were born in Saignelégier and lived there in 2000.  There were 678 or 31.6% who were born in the same canton, while 360 or 16.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 260 or 12.1% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.4%.
  As of 2000, there were 943 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 955 married individuals, 130 widows or widowers and 117 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 968 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.  There were 269 households that consist of only one person and 67 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 816 apartments (89.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 79 apartments (8.6%) were seasonally occupied and 21 apartments (2.3%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 3.2 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.85%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Saignelégier
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