page_title: Ollon
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Ollon / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Télécabine Roc d'Orsay 2000 in Villars-sur-Ollon
context_page_description: Ollon is a municipality in the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, sited in the foothills of the mountains to the south-east of the Lake of Geneva. The old German language name Olun is no longer used.
context_section_description: Ollon has a population (as of December 2018) of 7,463.  As of 2008, 32.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 11.7%.  It has changed at a rate of 10.7% due to migration and at a rate of 1.2% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (4,955 or 79.2%), with English being second most common (335 or 5.4%) and German being third (246 or 3.9%).  There are 96 people who speak Italian and 3 people who speak Romansh.
  Of the population in the municipality 1,724 or about 27.6% were born in Ollon and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,374 or 22.0% who were born in the same canton, while 1,011 or 16.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,869 or 29.9% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 38 live births to Swiss citizens and 15 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 45 deaths of Swiss citizens and 5 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 7 while the foreign population increased by 10.  There was 1 Swiss man and 1 Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 81 non-Swiss men and 107 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 91 and the non-Swiss population increased by 95 people.  This represents a population growth rate of 2.8%.
  The age distribution, as of 2009, in Ollon is; 690 children or 9.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 1,368 teenagers or 19.7% are between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 622 people or 9.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  772 people or 11.1% are between 30 and 39, 1,142 people or 16.4% are between 40 and 49, and 900 people or 13.0% are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 750 people or 10.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 437 people or 6.3% are between 70 and 79,there are 246 people or 3.5% who are 80 and 89, and there are 22 people or 0.3% who are 90 and older.
  As of 2000, there were 2,723 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 2,915 married individuals, 318 widows or widowers and 301 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 2,399 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 839 households that consist of only one person and 151 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 2,519 households that answered this question, 33.3% were households made up of just one person and there were 15 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 627 married couples without children, 726 married couples with children  There were 158 single parents with a child or children.  There were 34 households that were made up of unrelated people and 120 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 5,227 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 1,523.  There were 486 single room apartments and 1,154 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 2,130 apartments (40.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 2,880 apartments (55.1%) were seasonally occupied and 217 apartments (4.2%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 2 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 1.33%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Roc d'Orsay gondola
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