page_title: Steffisburg
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Steffisburg / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gemeindehaus von Steffisburg
context_page_description: Steffisburg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Schwendibach merged into the municipality of Steffisburg.
context_section_description: Steffisburg has a population (as of December 2018) of 15,959.  As of 2012, 10.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of 0.5%.  Migration accounted for 0.6%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.1%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (13,274 or 92.5%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (179 or 1.2%) and Albanian is the third (166 or 1.2%).  There are 122 people who speak French and 6 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 47.8% male and 52.2% female.  The population was made up of 6,614 Swiss men (42.9% of the population) and 767 (5.0%) non-Swiss men.  There were 7,304 Swiss women (47.3%) and 746 (4.8%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 3,657 or about 25.5% were born in Steffisburg and lived there in 2000.  There were 6,467 or 45.1% who were born in the same canton, while 1,904 or 13.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,611 or 11.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2012, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 18.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.0% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 20.3%.
  As of 2000, there were 5,813 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 6,817 married individuals, 997 widows or widowers and 722 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 2,422 households that consist of only one person and 329 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 6,157 apartments (91.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 408 apartments (6.1%) were seasonally occupied and 147 apartments (2.2%) were empty.  As of 2012, the construction rate of new housing units was 5.2 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2013, was 0.3%.  In 2012, single family homes made up 55.1% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Municipal administration building
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