page_title: Obergoms
section_title: Oberwald demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Obergoms / Demographics / Oberwald demographics
caption_attribution_description: Hotel Belvédère beim Rhonegletscher an Furka Passstrasse, Schweiz
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 Oberwald as of 2000, speaks German (249 or 95.8%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (6 or 2.3%) and Italian is the third (2 or 0.8%).  There is 1 person who speaks French.
  Of the population in the municipality 155 or about 59.6% were born in Oberwald and lived there in 2000.  There were 48 or 18.5% who were born in the same canton, while 30 or 11.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 19 or 7.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, there were 97 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 142 married individuals, 11 widows or widowers and 10 individuals who are divorced.
  There were 44 households that consist of only one person and 5 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 117 households that answered this question, 37.6% 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 31 married couples without children, 32 married couples with children  There were 2 single parents with a child or children.  There were 2 households that were made up of unrelated people and 5 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 37 single family homes (or 23.6% of the total) out of a total of 157 inhabited buildings.  There were 83 multi-family buildings (52.9%), along with 16 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (10.2%) and 21 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (13.4%).
  In 2000, a total of 112 apartments (24.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 331 apartments (71.3%) were seasonally occupied and 21 apartments (4.5%) were empty.
caption: Hotel Belvedere in Oberwald
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