page_title: Madiswil
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Madiswil / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Madiswil, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Madiswil, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Madiswil, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Madiswil is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Since January 1, 2007, Gutenburg is part of the municipality. On 1 January 2011 Kleindietwil and Leimiswil were merged with the municipality of Madiswil.
context_section_description: Madiswil has a population (as of December 2018) of 3,279.  As of 2010, 5.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of -1.6%.  Migration accounted for -0.7%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.5%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,956 or 97.1%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (13 or 0.6%) and Russian is the third (5 or 0.2%).  There are 4 people who speak French, 4 people who speak Italian.
  As of 2008, the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female.  The population was made up of 1,025 Swiss men (46.3% of the population) and 73 (3.3%) non-Swiss men.  There were 1,078 Swiss women (48.6%) and 40 (1.8%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 755 or about 37.5% were born in Madiswil and lived there in 2000.  There were 769 or 38.2% who were born in the same canton, while 296 or 14.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 126 or 6.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2010, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.5%.
  As of 2000, there were 831 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 1,012 married individuals, 113 widows or widowers and 59 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 233 households that consist of only one person and 64 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 774 apartments (91.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 48 apartments (5.7%) were seasonally occupied and 24 apartments (2.8%) were empty.  As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 0.6 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2011, was 0.54%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Part of the old village center of Madiswil
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