page_title: Matzendorf
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Matzendorf / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Matzendorf, canton of Solothurn, Switzerland Esperanto: Matzendorf, Kantono Soloturno, Svislando Deutsch: Matzendorf, Kanton Solothurn, Schweiz
context_page_description: Matzendorf is a municipality in the district of Thal in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Matzendorf has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,332.  As of 2008, 4.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 0.2%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,255 or 96.2%), with Albanian being second most common (13 or 1.0%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (12 or 0.9%).  There are 3 people who speak French.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female.  The population was made up of 619 Swiss men (47.3% of the population) and 47 (3.6%) non-Swiss men.  There were 613 Swiss women (46.8%) and 30 (2.3%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 615 or about 47.1% were born in Matzendorf and lived there in 2000.  There were 369 or 28.3% who were born in the same canton, while 234 or 17.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 74 or 5.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 7 live births to Swiss citizens and were 12 deaths of Swiss citizens.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 5 while the foreign population remained the same.  There were 3 Swiss men who immigrated back to Switzerland.  At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss man and 1 non-Swiss woman who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 6 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 5 people.  This represents a population growth rate of 0.1%.
  The age distribution, as of 2000, in Matzendorf is; 104 children or 8.0% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 292 teenagers or 22.4% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 55 people or 4.2% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old.  401 people or 30.7% are between 25 and 44, and 275 people or 21.1% are between 45 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 133 people or 10.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and  there are 45 people or 3.4% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 567 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 616 married individuals, 83 widows or widowers and 39 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 462 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household.  There were 103 households that consist of only one person and 70 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 470 households that answered this question, 21.9% were households made up of just one person and there were 7 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 134 married couples without children, 193 married couples with children  There were 22 single parents with a child or children.  There were 3 households that were made up of unrelated people and 8 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 268 single family homes (or 70.5% of the total) out of a total of 380 inhabited buildings.  There were 41 multi-family buildings (10.8%), along with 54 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (14.2%) and 17 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.5%).  Of the single family homes 26 were built before 1919, while 33 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single family homes (62) were built between 1981 and 1990.
  In 2000 there were 503 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 161.  There were 6 single room apartments and 252 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 455 apartments (90.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 24 apartments (4.8%) were seasonally occupied and 24 apartments (4.8%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 0.8 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 1.85%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: House in Matzendorf
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