page_title: Kirchdorf, Bern
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Kirchdorf, Bern / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Stattliches Bauernhaus im Dorfkern von Kirchdorf BE, Schweiz, genannt "Lehnerhaus". 2 geschossiger Ständerbau auf Mauersockel mit Ründidach, dat. 1761. Ausserordentlich reiche Holzbearbeitung, Frakturinschrift und elegante Rocaillenmalerei an Ründe und Laubenkonsole. Restauriert 1991 /1999
context_page_description: Kirchdorf is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Gelterfingen, Mühledorf and Noflen merged into the municipality of Kirchdorf.
context_section_description: Kirchdorf has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,843. As of 2012, 3.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population has changed at a rate of 8.2%. Migration accounted for 7.0%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.0%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (792 or 96.7%) as their first language, French is the second most common (10 or 1.2%) and Romansh is the third (3 or 0.4%). There are 2 people who speak Italian.
  As of 2008, the population was 49.4% male and 50.6% female. The population was made up of 385 Swiss men (47.3% of the population) and 17 (2.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 401 Swiss women (49.3%) and 11 (1.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 270 or about 33.0% were born in Kirchdorf and lived there in 2000. There were 408 or 49.8% who were born in the same canton, while 80 or 9.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 49 or 6.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2012, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.5% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.0%.
  As of 2000, there were 346 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 396 married individuals, 44 widows or widowers and 33 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 96 households that consist of only one person and 28 households with five or more people. In 2000, a total of 308 apartments (93.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 13 apartments (3.9%) were seasonally occupied and 9 apartments (2.7%) were empty. As of 2012, the construction rate of new housing units was 14.7559591373 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2013, was 1.0075566751%. In 2011, single family homes made up 51.8% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: The Lehnerhaus farmhouse in Kirchdorf
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