page_title: Blonay
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Blonay / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Einer der beiden Endpunkte der Museumsbahn Blonay–Chamby (BC): Blonay. Im Hintergrund links, der Bahnhof der Museumsbahn. Im Vordergrund Zahnradbahnstrecke System Abt von Blonay nach Les Pléiades. Rechts auf dem Bild nicht mehr sichtbar findet sich der Bahnhof der Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera (MVR).
context_page_description: Blonay is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Blonay has a population (as of December 2018) of 6,173.  As of 2008, 21.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 22.6%.  It has changed at a rate of 22.6% due to migration and at a rate of 0.6% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (3,881 or 82.7%) as their first language, with German being second most common (415 or 8.8%) and English being third (185 or 3.9%).  There are 66 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh.
  The age distribution, as of 2009, in Blonay is; 680 children or 11.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 770 teenagers or 13.5% are between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 493 people or 8.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  663 people or 11.6% are between 30 and 39, 1,052 people or 18.4% are between 40 and 49, and 749 people or 13.1% are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 657 people or 11.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 364 people or 6.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 231 people or 4.0% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 52 people or 0.9% who are 90 and older.
  As of 2000, there were 1,846 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 2,336 married individuals, 276 widows or widowers and 237 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 1,856 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household.  There were 527 households that consist of only one person and 123 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 1,907 households that answered this question, 27.6% were households made up of just one person and there were 13 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 571 married couples without children, 624 married couples with children  There were 94 single parents with a child or children.  There were 27 households that were made up of unrelated people and 51 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 1,055 single family homes (or 72.8% of the total) out of a total of 1,450 inhabited buildings.  There were 250 multi-family buildings (17.2%), along with 83 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (5.7%) and 62 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.3%).
  In 2000, a total of 1,808 apartments (78.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 381 apartments (16.5%) were seasonally occupied and 117 apartments (5.1%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 11.9 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.29%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Station of the Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway with the Blonay–Chamby Museum in the background
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