page_title: Cevio
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Cevio / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Alp Calnègia im Sommer
context_page_description: Cevio is the capital of the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. In 2006 Cevio grew by incorporating the villages of Bignasco and Cavergno, previously municipalities in their own right.
context_section_description: Cevio has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,159.  As of 2008, 14.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -4.6%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks Italian language (387 or 77.9%), with German being second most common (54 or 10.9%) and Spanish being third (21 or 4.2%).  There are 12 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh.  The inhabitants of Cevio speak a dialect that is very different from standard Italian.  Cevio is one of the municipalities of Ticino in which Italian has most notably lost ground.
  Of the 476 residents, 364 (76.47 percent) are Swiss citizens. The largest non-Swiss groups are from Italy, Spain, Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sri Lanka. The unusually high number of non-Swiss in the municipality is due to the abundance of jobs in the quarries and hospital.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 50.7% male and 49.3% female.  The population was made up of 512 Swiss men (41.9% of the population), and 107 (8.8%) non-Swiss men.  There were 540 Swiss women (44.2%), and 63 (5.2%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 137 or about 27.6% were born in Cevio and lived there in 2000.  There were 140 or 28.2% who were born in the same canton, while 60 or 12.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 131 or 26.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 7 live births to Swiss citizens and were 15 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 8 while the foreign population decreased by 1.  There were 2 Swiss men and 3 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 8 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 4 and the non-Swiss population change was a decrease of 8 people.  This represents a population growth rate of -1.0%.
  The age distribution, as of 2009, in Cevio is; 94 children or 7.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 127 teenagers or 10.4% are between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 126 people or 10.3% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  112 people or 9.2% are between 30 and 39, 204 people or 16.7% are between 40 and 49, and 187 people or 15.3% are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 140 people or 11.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 133 people or 10.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 99 people or 8.1% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 186 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 235 married individuals, 52 widows or widowers and 24 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 518 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 68 households that consist of only one person and 8 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 205 households that answered this question, 33.2% were households made up of just one person and 4 were adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households,  there are 59 married couples without children, 56 married couples with children  There were 10 single parents with a child or children.  There were 4 households that were made up unrelated people and 4 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 233 single family homes (or 79.0% of the total) out of a total of 295 inhabited buildings.  There were 44 multi-family buildings (14.9%), along with 5 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (1.7%) and 13 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.4%).  Of the single family homes 11 were built before 1919, while 10 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single family homes (134) were built between 1919 and 1945.
  In 2000 there were 37
caption: Calnegia village
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