page_title: Unterseen
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Unterseen / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Unterseen an Aar (sight from Hotel Central), canton of Bern, Switzerland Esperanto: Unterseen kaj Aro (rigardo el Hotelo Central), Kantono Berno, Svislando Deutsch: Unterseen und Aare (Blick vom Hotel Central), Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Unterseen is a historic town and a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
  Unterseen literally means Lower Lake, which is correct, since Unterseen is located on the flat area on the eastern shore of Lake Thun between the two creek Lombach below the Chienberg to the north and the Aare to the south, which both flow into Lake Thun. The historic town however is mainly found at the northern bank of the Aare, which flows here from Lake Brienz to Lake Thun. Just across the Aare is the town of Interlaken. Both municipalities are located on the flat alluvial land among steep mountains, which is also called the Bödeli.
  Unterseen belongs to the Small Agglomeration Interlaken with 23,300 inhabitants.
  Along with Interlaken, Unterseen is an important tourist center in the Bernese Highlands, and from the town one can see the mountains Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau.
context_section_description: Unterseen has a population (as of December 2018) of 5,751. As of 2010, 14.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 11.1%. Migration accounted for 11.1%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.9%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (4,636 or 89.1%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (110 or 2.1%) and Italian is the third (105 or 2.0%). There are 45 people who speak French and 2 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 47.4% male and 52.6% female. The population was made up of 2,199 Swiss men (40.0% of the population) and 406 (7.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 2,497 Swiss women (45.5%) and 390 (7.1%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 1,314 or about 25.3% were born in Unterseen and lived there in 2000. There were 2,091 or 40.2% who were born in the same canton, while 755 or 14.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 843 or 16.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2010, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 18.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 20.4%.
  As of 2000, there were 2,088 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 2,370 married individuals, 419 widows or widowers and 324 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 949 households that consist of only one person and 111 households with five or more people. In 2000, a total of 2,306 apartments (85.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 273 apartments (10.1%) were seasonally occupied and 113 apartments (4.2%) were empty. As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 9.7 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2011, was 0.06%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Houses in Unterseen
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