page_title: Oberems
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Oberems / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Turtmannhütte SAC - [1]
context_page_description: Oberems is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Oberems has a population (as of December 2018) of 122.  As of 2008, 2.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  During the 10-year period from 1999 to 2009, the population changed at a rate of 0.8%.  It has changed at a rate of 7.5% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths.
  All of the population (as of 2000) speaks German.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female.  The population was made up of 63 Swiss men (47.0% of the population) and 3 (2.2%) non-Swiss men.  There were 67 Swiss women (50.0%) and 1 (0.7%) non-Swiss woman.  Of the population in the municipality, 85 or about 68.0% were born in Oberems and lived there in 2000.  There were 23 or 18.4% who were born in the same canton, while 11 or 8.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 4 or 3.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
  The age distribution of the population (as of 2000): Children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 57.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.6%.
  As of 2000, there were 56 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 58 married individuals, 11 widows or widowers and  individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 50 private households in the municipality, with an average of 2.4 persons per household.  There were 18 households that consist of only one person and 5 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 52 households that answered this question, 34.6% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 12 married couples without children, 16 married couples with children.  There were 2 single parents with a child or children.  There was 1 household that was made up of unrelated people and 2 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000, there were 96 single-family homes (or 74.4% of the total) out of a total of 129 inhabited buildings.  There were 27 multi-family buildings (20.9%), along with 3 multi-purpose buildings that were used mostly for housing (2.3%) and 3 other-use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.3%).
  In 2000, a total of 48 apartments (29.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 88 apartments (53.3%) were seasonally occupied and 29 apartments (17.6%) were empty.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 4.24%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Building in the Turtmann valley
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