page_title: Bettlach, Switzerland
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Bettlach, Switzerland / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Bettlachstock/Switzerland Deutsch: Bettlachstock/Schweiz
context_page_description: Bettlach is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Bettlach has a population (as of December 2018) of 4,911.  As of 2008, 15.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 2.8%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (4,168 or 88.3%), with Italian being second most common (153 or 3.2%) and French being third (80 or 1.7%).  There are 3 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 51.0% male and 49.0% female.  The population was made up of 2,001 Swiss men (41.5% of the population) and 461 (9.6%) non-Swiss men.  There were 1,991 Swiss women (41.3%) and 372 (7.7%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 1,283 or about 27.2% were born in Bettlach and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,488 or 31.5% who were born in the same canton, while 1,100 or 23.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 718 or 15.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 32 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 33 deaths of Swiss citizens.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 1 while the foreign population increased by 2.  There were 4 Swiss men and 3 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 18 non-Swiss men and 6 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 a decrease of 39 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 12 people.  This represents a population growth rate of -1.1%.
  The age distribution, as of 2000, in Bettlach is; 350 children or 7.4% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 746 teenagers or 15.8% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 230 people or 4.9% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old.  1,503 people or 31.8% are between 25 and 44, and 1,204 people or 25.5% are between 45 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 529 people or 11.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and  there are 159 people or 3.4% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 1,816 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 2,346 married individuals, 235 widows or widowers and 324 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 1,989 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 599 households that consist of only one person and 118 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 2,014 households that answered this question, 29.7% were households made up of just one person and there were 12 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 653 married couples without children, 618 married couples with children  There were 92 single parents with a child or children.  There were 15 households that were made up of unrelated people and 25 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 584 single-family homes (or 63.9% of the total) out of a total of 914 inhabited buildings.  There were 212 multi-family buildings (23.2%), along with 94 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (10.3%) and 24 other-use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.6%).  Of the single-family homes 18 were built before 1919, while 142 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single-family homes (116) were built between 1946 and 1960.
  In 2000 there were 2,080 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 643.  There were 74 single-room apartments and 632 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 1,946 apartments (93.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 55 apartments (2.6%) were seasonally occupied and 79 apartments (3.8%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 2.9 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy r
caption: House in Bettlach
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