page_title: Plaffeien
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Plaffeien / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Plaffeien
context_page_description: Plaffeien is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. In 2017 the former municipalities of Zumholz and Oberschrot merged into the municipality of Plaffeien.
context_section_description: Plaffeien has a population (as of December 2018) of 3,594.  As of 2008, 6.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of −3.5%.  Migration accounted for −0.1%, while births and deaths accounted for −0.3%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,774 or 91.5%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (76 or 3.9%) and French is the third (50 or 2.6%).  There are 4 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 50.8% male and 49.2% female.  The population was made up of 900 Swiss men (46.8% of the population) and 77 (4.0%) non-Swiss men.  There were 893 Swiss women (46.5%) and 52 (2.7%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 899 or about 46.4% were born in Plaffeien and lived there in 2000.  There were 588 or 30.3% who were born in the same canton, while 244 or 12.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 162 or 8.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.9%.
  As of 2000, there were 852 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 875 married individuals, 123 widows or widowers and 88 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 799 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 275 households that consist of only one person and 60 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 773 apartments (66.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 319 apartments (27.3%) were seasonally occupied and 76 apartments (6.5%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 4.2 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.56%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Plaffeien village
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