page_title: Riehen
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Riehen / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Riehen neuer Wenken Ansicht Gartenseite
context_page_description: Riehen is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland. Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton.
  Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler as well as a toy museum.
  Riehen was the first municipality in Switzerland to elect a woman, Trudy Späth-Schweizer to political office, in 1958.
context_section_description: Riehen has a population (as of August 2019) of 21,462.  As of 2008, 18.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -0.2%.  It has changed at a rate of 4.9% due to migration and at a rate of -4.9% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (18,509 or 90.9%), with French being second most common (365 or 1.8%) and Italian being third (355 or 1.7%).  There are 29 people who speak Romansh.
  Of the population in the municipality 4,549 or about 22.3% were born in Riehen and lived there in 2000.  There were 4,939 or 24.2% who were born in the same canton, while 5,700 or 28.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 4,420 or 21.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 94 live births to Swiss citizens and 33 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 226 deaths of Swiss citizens and 5 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 132 while the foreign population increased by 28.  There were 4 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland and 22 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 73 non-Swiss men and 41 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 95 and the non-Swiss population increased by 117 people.  This represents a population growth rate of 0.1%.
  As of 2000, there were 7,169 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 10,466 married individuals, 1,621 widows or widowers and 1,114 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 9,201 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.1 persons per household.  There were 3,248 households that consist of only one person and 409 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 9,315 households that answered this question, 34.9% were households made up of just one person and there were 82 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 3,073 married couples without children, 2,232 married couples with children  There were 468 single parents with a child or children.  There were 98 households that were made up of unrelated people and 114 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 2,460 single-family homes (or 63.2% of the total) out of a total of 3,894 inhabited buildings.  There were 999 multi-family buildings (25.7%), along with 337 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (8.7%) and 98 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.5%).  Of the single-family homes 124 were built before 1919, while 206 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single-family homes (852) were built between 1946 and 1960.
  In 2000 there were 9,740 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 2,998.  There were 353 single-room apartments and 2,649 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 9,063 apartments (93.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 453 apartments (4.7%) were seasonally occupied and 224 apartments (2.3%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 2.1 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.52%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Neuer Wenkenhof
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