page_title: Chêne-Bourg
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Chêne-Bourg / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue générale du parc «&#160;Dinu Lipatti&#160;» à Chêne-Bourg, canton de Genève.
context_page_description: Chêne-Bourg is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
context_section_description: Chêne-Bourg has a population (as of December 2018) of 8,708.  As of 2008, 34.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 15.4%.  It has changed at a rate of 9.6% due to migration and at a rate of 5.9% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (5,781 or 80.1%), with Portuguese being second most common (348 or 4.8%) and Italian being third (262 or 3.6%).  There are 6 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 47.1% male and 52.9% female.  The population was made up of 2,346 Swiss men (29.2% of the population) and 1,446 (18.0%) non-Swiss men.  There were 2,879 Swiss women (35.8%) and 1,372 (17.1%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 1,101 or about 15.2% were born in Chêne-Bourg and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,836 or 25.4% who were born in the same canton, while 1,080 or 15.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 2,819 or 39.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 57 live births to Swiss citizens and 24 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 26 deaths of Swiss citizens and 3 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 31 while the foreign population increased by 21.  There were 28 Swiss men and 28 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 41 non-Swiss men and 52 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 43 and the non-Swiss population increased by 21 people.  This represents a population growth rate of 0.8%.
  The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.3%.
  As of 2000, there were 3,026 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 3,213 married individuals, 378 widows or widowers and 604 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 3,248 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.1 persons per household.  There were 1,290 households that consist of only one person and 148 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 3,351 households that answered this question, 38.5% were households made up of just one person and there were 19 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 741 married couples without children, 849 married couples with children  There were 297 single parents with a child or children.  There were 52 households that were made up of unrelated people and 103 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 342 single family homes (or 47.0% of the total) out of a total of 728 inhabited buildings.  There were 220 multi-family buildings (30.2%), along with 125 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (17.2%) and 41 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.6%).  Of the single family homes 58 were built before 1919, while 37 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single family homes (79) were built between 1919 and 1945.
  In 2000 there were 3,524 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 1,097.  There were 407 single room apartments and 447 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 3,191 apartments (90.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 266 apartments (7.5%) were seasonally occupied and 67 apartments (1.9%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 6.5 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.16%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Apartment buildings in Chêne-Bourg
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