page_title: Biberist
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Biberist / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: A panorama
context_page_description: Biberist is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Biberist has a population (as of December 2018) of 8,568.  As of 2008, 20.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 4.7%.  It has changed at a rate of 7.3% due to migration and at a rate of -2.2% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (6,644 or 87.4%), with Italian being second most common (277 or 3.6%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (175 or 2.3%).  There are 63 people who speak French and 3 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.  The population was made up of 2,959 Swiss men (37.1% of the population) and 939 (11.8%) non-Swiss men.  There were 3,283 Swiss women (41.2%) and 796 (10.0%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 2,178 or about 28.6% were born in Biberist and lived there in 2000.  There were 2,004 or 26.4% who were born in the same canton, while 1,830 or 24.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,357 or 17.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 37 live births to Swiss citizens and 22 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 77 deaths of Swiss citizens and 3 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 40 while the foreign population increased by 19.  There were 7 Swiss men and 2 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 21 non-Swiss men and 10 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 an increase of 11 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 21 people.  This represents a population growth rate of -0.1%.
  The age distribution, as of 2000, in Biberist is; 535 children or 7.0% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 1,153 teenagers or 15.2% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 452 people or 5.9% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old.  2,272 people or 29.9% are between 25 and 44, and 1,837 people or 24.2% are between 45 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 957 people or 12.6% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 397 people or 5.2% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 3,042 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 3,605 married individuals, 509 widows or widowers and 447 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 3,238 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household.  There were 1,125 households that consist of only one person and 196 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 3,287 households that answered this question, 34.2% were households made up of just one person and there were 28 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 966 married couples without children, 923 married couples with children  There were 173 single parents with a child or children.  There were 23 households that were made up of unrelated people and 49 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 1,018 single-family homes (or 62.8% of the total) out of a total of 1,620 inhabited buildings.  There were 369 multi-family buildings (22.8%), along with 152 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (9.4%) and 81 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.0%).  Of the single-family homes 60 were built before 1919, while 116 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single-family homes (254) were built between 1946 and 1960.
  In 2000 there were 3,427 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 1,145.  There were 74 single room apartments and 919 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 3,152 apartments (92.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 1
caption: Biberist St. Urs restaurant completely burnt down
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