page_title: Giswil
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Giswil / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Giswil OW, Switzerland
context_page_description: Giswil is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Giswil has a population (as of 31 December 2018) of 3,658.  As of 2007, 8.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. After a period of poverty and emigration in the late 19th century, where the population stagnated at about 1600 persons, the population increased quite continuously in the 20th century. Over the past 40 years the population has increased by 38%, mainly because economic conditions in the region and public transport to Luzern have improved so that the migration balance definitely changed its sense towards immigration.  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German  (95.5%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.0%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.8%).  As of 2000 the gender distribution of the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female.  As of 2000 there are 1,250 households in Giswil.
  In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 35.9% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the CVP (26.2%), the SPS (19.4%) and the rest of the votes went to other parties (18.6%).
  In Giswil about 68.2% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
  Giswil has an unemployment rate of 1.24%.  As of 2005, there were 329 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 125 businesses involved in this sector.  335 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 53 businesses in this sector.  467 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 84 businesses in this sector.
  The historical population is given in the following table:
caption: Roman Catholic church of Giswil
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