page_title: Obergoms
section_title: Ulrichen demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Obergoms / Demographics / Ulrichen demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ulrichen, Dorfteil "Im Loch", Beginn der Passstrasse zum Nufenenpass
context_page_description: Obergoms is the upper part of the Goms and a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It was formed on 1 January 2009 when the three municipalities Ulrichen, Obergesteln and Oberwald merged.
context_section_description: Most of the population, in Ulrichen as of 2000, speaks German (213 or 96.4%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (3 or 1.4%) and Portuguese is the third (3 or 1.4%).
  Of the population in the municipality 141 or about 63.8% were born in Ulrichen and lived there in 2000.  There were 47 or 21.3% who were born in the same canton, while 16 or 7.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 17 or 7.7% were born outside of Switzerland.    As of 2000, there were 93 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 119 married individuals, 9 widows or widowers and  individuals who are divorced.
  There were 24 households that consist of only one person and 8 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 89 households that answered this question, 27.0% 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 26 married couples without children, 33 married couples with children  There were 3 households that were 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 41 single family homes (or 38.0% of the total) out of a total of 108 inhabited buildings.  There were 47 multi-family buildings (43.5%), along with 11 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (10.2%) and 9 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.3%).
  In 2000, a total of 85 apartments (36.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 129 apartments (54.9%) were seasonally occupied and 21 apartments (8.9%) were empty.
caption: Ulrichen village
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