page_title: Safnern
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Safnern / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Municipal administration of Safnern, canton of Bern, Switzerland Esperanto: Komunuma administracio de Safnern, Kantono Berno, Svislando Deutsch: Gemeindeverwaltung von Safnern, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Safnern is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Safnern has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,928.  As of 2010, 5.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2001-2011) the population has changed at a rate of 0%.  Migration accounted for 0.6%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.1%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,652 or 92.9%) as their first language, French is the second most common (81 or 4.6%) and Italian is the third (14 or 0.8%).
  As of 2008, the population was 48.5% male and 51.5% female.  The population was made up of 854 Swiss men (45.6% of the population) and 54 (2.9%) non-Swiss men.  There were 921 Swiss women (49.2%) and 4 (0.2%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 457 or about 25.7% were born in Safnern and lived there in 2000.  There were 827 or 46.5% who were born in the same canton, while 322 or 18.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 133 or 7.5% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2011, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.2%.
  As of 2000, there were 658 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 946 married individuals, 92 widows or widowers and 83 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 182 households that consist of only one person and 34 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 712 apartments (93.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 21 apartments (2.8%) were seasonally occupied and 27 apartments (3.6%) were empty.  As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 1.6 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2012, was 2.61%.  In 2011, single family homes made up 68.8% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Safnern municipal administration building
exif: {"Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D40X", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Ver.1.00", "Image DateTime": "2012:05:27 13:35:31", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "2294", "Image XPKeywords": "[50, 0, 48, 0, 49, 0, 50, 0, 45, 0, 48, 0, 53, 0, 45, 0, 50, 0, 54, 0, ... ]", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "300", "Thumbnail YResolution": "300", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "33048", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4198", "Thumbnail YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/200", "EXIF FNumber": "10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Unidentified", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2012:05:27 13:35:31", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2012:05:27 13:35:31", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "18/5", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash fired, auto mode, return light detected", "EXIF FocalLength": "18", "EXIF SubSecTime": "10", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "00", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3872", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2592", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "32802", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 2, 0, 1]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "27", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "None", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0", "EXIF Padding": "[]", "EXIF OffsetSchema": "4100"}