page_title: Gänsbrunnen
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Gänsbrunnen / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gänsbrunnen SO, Schweiz
context_page_description: Gänsbrunnen is a municipality in the district of Thal in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. The French name for Gänsbrunnen is Saint-Joseph.
  Gänsbrunnen is one of the smallest municipalities in Solothurn.
context_section_description: Gänsbrunnen has a population (as of December 2018) of 85.  As of 2008, 1.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -1.1%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (80 or 95.2%) with the rest speaking French
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 48.5% male and 51.5% female.  The population was made up of 44 Swiss men (45.4% of the population) and 3 (3.1%) non-Swiss men.  There were 48 Swiss women (49.5%) and 2 (2.1%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 25 or about 29.8% were born in Gänsbrunnen and lived there in 2000.  There were 23 or 27.4% who were born in the same canton, while 30 or 35.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 5 or 6.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there was 1 live birth to Swiss citizens.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 1 while the foreign population remained the same.  There was 1 non-Swiss man who immigrated from another country to Switzerland and 1 non-Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland to another country.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 4 and the non-Swiss population remained the same.  This represents a population growth rate of 4.1%.
  The age distribution, as of 2000, in Gänsbrunnen is; 5 children or 6.0% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 17 teenagers or 20.2% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 6 people or 7.1% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old.  25 people or 29.8% are between 25 and 44, and 18 people or 21.4% are between 45 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 9 people or 10.7% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and  there are 4 people or 4.8% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 38 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 36 married individuals, 6 widows or widowers and 4 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 31 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.  There were 8 households that consist of only one person and 3 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 33 households that answered this question, 24.2% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 8 married couples without children, 10 married couples with children  There were 2 single parents with a child or children.
  In 2000 there were 12 single family homes (or 36.4% of the total) out of a total of 33 inhabited buildings.  There were 1 multi-family buildings (3.0%), along with 14 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (42.4%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (18.2%).  Of the single family homes 4 were built before 1919, while none were built between 1990 and 2000.
  In 2000 there were 42 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 15.  There were 1 single room apartments and 15 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 31 apartments (73.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 10 apartments (23.8%) were seasonally occupied and 1 apartments (2.4%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Houses near the quarry
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