page_title: Burgdorf, Switzerland
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Burgdorf, Switzerland / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Burgdorf, Switzerland
context_page_description: Burgdorf is the largest city in the Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It was the capital of the district of the same name until 2010, when it became part of the new Emmental district.
context_section_description: Burgdorf has a population (as of December 2018) of 16,420.  As of 2010, 12.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 5.2%.  Migration accounted for 6.6%, while births and deaths accounted for -1.1%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks Swiss-German (13,088 or 88.9%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (402 or 2.7%) and Albanian is the third (219 or 1.5%).  There are 116 people who speak French and 8 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 48.3% male and 51.7% female.  The population was made up of 6,335 Swiss men (41.2% of the population) and 1,083 (7.0%) non-Swiss men.  There were 7,051 Swiss women (45.9%) and 905 (5.9%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 4,260 or about 29.0% were born in Burgdorf and lived there in 2000.  There were 5,462 or 37.1% who were born in the same canton, while 2,176 or 14.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 2,352 or 16.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.2%.
  As of 2000, there were 5,932 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 6,856 married individuals, 1,067 widows or widowers and 859 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 6,637 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.1 persons per household.  There were 2,567 households that consist of only one person and 353 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 6,507 apartments (91.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 371 apartments (5.2%) were seasonally occupied and 199 apartments (2.8%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 2.5 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 1.85%.
caption: Old City of Burgdorf
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