page_title: Sumiswald
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Sumiswald / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Sumiswald
context_page_description: Sumiswald is a municipality in the district of the Emmental administrative district in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is mostly known for being the manufacturing location of the Swiss railway clock.
context_section_description: Sumiswald has a population (as of December 2018) of 5,045.  As of 2012, 5.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of 0.0%.  Migration accounted for -0.1%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.4%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (4,991 or 94.0%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (74 or 1.4%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (48 or 0.9%).  There are 17 people who speak French, 17 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2013, the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female.  The population was made up of 2,349 Swiss men (46.7% of the population) and 140 (2.8%) non-Swiss men.  There were 2,404 Swiss women (47.8%) and 137 (2.7%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 2,532 or about 47.7% were born in Sumiswald and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,745 or 32.9% who were born in the same canton, while 410 or 7.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 396 or 7.5% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2012, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.0% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.4%.
  As of 2000, there were 2,300 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 2,453 married individuals, 396 widows or widowers and 158 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 679 households that consist of only one person and 200 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 1,983 apartments (87.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 166 apartments (7.3%) were seasonally occupied and 118 apartments (5.2%) were empty.  As of 2012, the construction rate of new housing units was 3.2 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2013, was 0.7%.  In 2012, single family homes made up 34.9% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Sumiswald town, industry and the old castle
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