page_title: Anniviers
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Anniviers / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue du village de St-Luc en Valais Contents 1 Date 2 Licensing 3 Licensing 4 Original upload log Date Juillet 2006 Licensing Photo personnelle par Albins
context_page_description: Anniviers is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It was formed through the merger of six municipalities in Val d'Anniviers: Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie. The merger became effective 1 January 2009, creating the third largest municipality of Switzerland by surface area.
context_section_description: Anniviers has a population (as of December 2018) of 2,732.  As of 2008, 19.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 14.4%.  It has changed at a rate of 14.8% due to migration and at a rate of 3.4% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (89.6%) as their first language, German is the second most common (3.9%) and Portuguese is the third (3.4%).
  As of 2008, the population was 52.1% male and 47.9% female.  The population was made up of 1,038 Swiss men (41.0% of the population) and 281 (11.1%) non-Swiss men.  There were 1,000 Swiss women (39.5%) and 213 (8.4%) non-Swiss women.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.1%.
  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 17 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.52%.
caption: St. Luc village
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