page_title: Signau
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Signau / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Moserhaus Signau, ehem. Färberei This is an image of a cultural property of regional significance in Switzerland with KGS number 1221
context_page_description: Signau is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Signau has a population (as of December 2018) of 2,660.  As of 2012, 4.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of -0.1%.  Migration accounted for -2.8%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.1%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (2,741 or 95.2%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (53 or 1.8%) and French is the third (16 or 0.6%).  There are 3 people who speak Italian.
  As of 2008, the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female.  The population was made up of 1,320 Swiss men (48.0% of the population) and 70 (2.5%) non-Swiss men.  There were 1,314 Swiss women (47.8%) and 45 (1.6%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 1,213 or about 42.1% were born in Signau and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,151 or 40.0% who were born in the same canton, while 207 or 7.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 161 or 5.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2012, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.0% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.9%.
  As of 2000, there were 1,272 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 1,347 married individuals, 196 widows or widowers and 63 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 333 households that consist of only one person and 102 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 1,041 apartments (91.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 47 apartments (4.1%) were seasonally occupied and 50 apartments (4.4%) were empty.  As of 2012, the construction rate of new housing units was 1.1 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2013, was 2.8%.  In 2012, single family homes made up 29.0% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: The historic Krämerhaus in Signau
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