page_title: Breil/Brigels
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Breil/Brigels / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Typical house in Brigels, Village in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Picture taken by Peter Berger, January 2, 2007.
context_page_description: Breil/Brigels is a municipality in the Surselva Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Andiast and Waltensburg/Vuorz merged into the municipality of Breil/Brigels.
  The name of the municipality comes from the word brigilo, meaning little town. The name comes from the village name in the two local languages. In Romansh the name is Breil Romansh: while in German it is Brigels German.
context_section_description: Breil/Brigels has a population (as of 31 December 2018) of 11,279.  As of 2008, 4.7% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -0.1%.
  As of 2000, the gender distribution of the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female.  The age distribution, as of 2000, in Breil/Brigels is; 145 children or 12.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 167 teenagers or 14.1% are between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 98 people or 8.3% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  195 people or 16.4% are between 30 and 39, 139 people or 11.7% are between 40 and 49, and 133 people or 11.2% are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 160 people or 13.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 103 people or 8.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 43 people or 3.6% who are between 80 and 89 there are 4 people or 0.3% who are between 90 and 99.
  In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 67.8% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the SVP (18.2%), the FDP (7.1%) and the SP (6.6%).
  The entire Swiss population is generally well educated.  In Breil/Brigels about 61.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
  Breil/Brigels has an unemployment rate of 1.14%.  As of 2005, there were 90 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 37 businesses involved in this sector.  108 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 15 businesses in this sector.  280 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 62 businesses in this sector.
  The historical population is given in the following table:
caption: Typical house in the village
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