page_title: Schwarzhäusern
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Schwarzhäusern / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Castle Aarwangen, seen from Schwarzhäusern, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Kastelo Aarwangen, vidita de Schwarzhäusern, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Schloss Aarwangen von Schwarzhäusern aus gesehen, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Schwarzhäusern is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Schwarzhäusern has a population (as of December 2018) of 522.  As of 2010, 2.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 9.8%.  Migration accounted for 5.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.5%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (427 or 97.5%) as their first language, French is the second most common (4 or 0.9%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (4 or 0.9%).  There is 1 person who speaks Italian.
  As of 2008, the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female.  The population was made up of 231 Swiss men (48.1% of the population) and 11 (2.3%) non-Swiss men.  There were 235 Swiss women (49.0%) and 3 (0.6%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 152 or about 34.7% were born in Schwarzhäusern and lived there in 2000.  There were 162 or 37.0% who were born in the same canton, while 91 or 20.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 25 or 5.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2010, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.7%.
  As of 2000, there were 167 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 218 married individuals, 27 widows or widowers and 26 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 46 households that consist of only one person and 10 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 175 apartments (95.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 3 apartments (1.6%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (3.3%) were empty.  As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 2.1 new units per 1000 residents.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Aarwangen Castle seen from across the river in Schwarzhäusern
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