page_title: Salgesch
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Salgesch / Demographics
context_page_description: Salgesch is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Salgesch has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,548.  As of 2008, 10.1% 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 -0.2% due to migration and at a rate of 0.3% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,057 or 88.2%) as their first language, French is the second most common (107 or 8.9%) and Italian is the third (11 or 0.9%).
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female.  The population was made up of 601 Swiss men (44.6% of the population) and 85 (6.3%) non-Swiss men.  There were 599 Swiss women (44.4%) and 63 (4.7%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 748 or about 62.4% were born in Salgesch and lived there in 2000.  There were 287 or 24.0% who were born in the same canton, while 68 or 5.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 56 or 4.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.8%.
  As of 2000, there were 459 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 619 married individuals, 80 widows or widowers and 40 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 479 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household.  There were 142 households that consist of only one person and 37 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 489 households that answered this question, 29.0% were households made up of just one person and there were 10 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 128 married couples without children, 169 married couples with children  There were 22 single parents with a child or children.  There were 8 households that were made up of unrelated people and 10 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 205 single family homes (or 59.8% of the total) out of a total of 343 inhabited buildings.  There were 72 multi-family buildings (21.0%), along with 25 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (7.3%) and 41 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (12.0%).
  In 2000, a total of 436 apartments (85.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 56 apartments (11.0%) were seasonally occupied and 19 apartments (3.7%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 3.7 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 1.28%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: House in Salgesch
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