page_title: Waldenburg, Switzerland
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Waldenburg, Switzerland / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Häuserfront in der Altstadt von Waldenburg BL English: Pictures from the old town of Waldenburg, Switzerland
context_page_description: Waldenburg is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland, and the capital of the district of the same name.
context_section_description: Waldenburg has a population (as of March 2019) of 1,089.  As of 2008, 27.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -9.8%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,067 or 80.3%), with Albanian being second most common (104 or 7.8%) and Italian being third (56 or 4.2%).  There are 5 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.  The population was made up of 881 Swiss citizens (72.9% of the population), and 327 non-Swiss residents (27.1%)  Of the population in the municipality 363 or about 27.3% were born in Waldenburg and lived there in 2000.  There were 304 or 22.9% who were born in the same canton, while 291 or 21.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 328 or 24.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 8 live births to Swiss citizens and 5 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 10 deaths of Swiss citizens and 3 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 2.  There was 1 Swiss man who emigrated from Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 9 non-Swiss men and 8 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 1 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 5 people.  This represents a population growth rate of -0.5%.
  The age distribution, as of 2010, in Waldenburg is; 78 children or 6.5% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 208 teenagers or 17.2% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 159 people or 13.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  129 people or 10.7% are between 30 and 39, 216 people or 17.9% are between 40 and 49, and 240 people or 19.9% are between 50 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 112 people or 9.3% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and  there are 66 people or 5.5% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 561 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 624 married individuals, 76 widows or widowers and 67 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 523 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.  There were 163 households that consist of only one person and 69 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 533 households that answered this question, 30.6% were households made up of just one person and 5 were adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households,  there are 150 married couples without children, 165 married couples with children  There were 33 single parents with a child or children.  There were 7 households that were made up unrelated people and 10 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 211 single family homes (or 61.7% of the total) out of a total of 342 inhabited buildings.  There were 68 multi-family buildings (19.9%), along with 41 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (12.0%) and 22 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (6.4%).  Of the single family homes 62 were built before 1919, while 31 were built between 1990 and 2000.
  In 2000 there were 577 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 164.  There were 12 single room apartments and 182 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 504 apartments (87.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 40 apartments (6.9%) were seasonally occupied and 33 apartments (5.7%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 1.7 new units per 1000 residents.  As of 2000 the average price to rent a two-room apartment was about 626.00 CHF (US$500, £280, €400), a three-room apart
caption: Houses in Waldenburg
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