page_title: Trachselwald
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Trachselwald / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Trachselwald, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Trachselwald, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Trachselwald, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Trachselwald is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the Swiss canton of Bern.
context_section_description: Trachselwald has a population (as of December 2018) of 960.  As of 2012, 3.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of -4.1%.  Migration accounted for -2.0%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.8%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,086 or 98.7%) as their first language, French and Italian both have only 2 speakers in the municipality.
  As of 2013, the population was 52.0% male and 48.0% female.  The population was made up of 488 Swiss men (49.8% of the population) and 21 (2.1%) non-Swiss men.  There were 454 Swiss women (46.4%) and 16 (1.6%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 521 or about 47.4% were born in Trachselwald and lived there in 2000.  There were 436 or 39.6% who were born in the same canton, while 91 or 8.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 26 or 2.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2012, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.1%.
  As of 2000, there were 498 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 500 married individuals, 67 widows or widowers and 35 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 99 households that consist of only one person and 48 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 355 apartments (87.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 26 apartments (6.4%) were seasonally occupied and 24 apartments (5.9%) were empty.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2013, was 2.2%.  In 2012, single family homes made up 31.5% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Traditional houses in Trachselwald
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