page_title: Mergoscia
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Mergoscia / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Streety @ Mercoscia
context_page_description: Mergoscia is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Mergoscia has a population (as of December 2018) of 213.  As of 2008, 9.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 19.9%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks Italian (71.8%), with German being second most common (24.3%) and French being third (2.2%).  Of the Swiss national languages (as of 2000), 44 speak German, 4 people speak French, 130 people speak Italian.  The remainder (3 people) speak another language.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female.  The population was made up of 96 Swiss men (44.0% of the population), and 13 (6.0%) non-Swiss men.  There were 104 Swiss women (47.7%), and 5 (2.3%) non-Swiss women.
  In 2008 there were 5 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 death of a Swiss citizen.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 4 while the foreign population remained the same.  There were 4 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 an increase of 11 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 7 people.  This represents a population growth rate of 8.8%.
  The age distribution, as of 2009, in Mergoscia is; 19 children or 8.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 24 teenagers or 11.0% are between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 13 people or 6.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  20 people or 9.2% are between 30 and 39, 48 people or 22.0% are between 40 and 49, and 30 people or 13.8% are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 35 people or 16.1% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 15 people or 6.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 14 people or 6.4% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 84 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.1 persons per household.  In 2000 there were 395 single family homes (or 95.2% of the total) out of a total of 415 inhabited buildings.  There were 10 two family buildings (2.4%) and 2 multi-family buildings (0.5%).  There were also 8 buildings in the municipality that were multipurpose buildings (used for both housing and commercial or another purpose).
  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2008, was 0%.  In 2000 there were 428 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was the 3 room apartment of which there were 132.  There were 36 single room apartments and 44 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 84 apartments (19.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 344 apartments (80.4%) were seasonally occupied.  As of 2007, the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents.
  The historical population is given in the following table:
caption: Mergoscia with some of the newer houses in the village
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