page_title: Hindelbank
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Hindelbank / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Timber framing house at Hindelbank, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Faktrabdomo en Hindelbank, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Fachwerkhaus in Hindelbank, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Hindelbank is a municipality in the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Hindelbank has a population (as of December 2018) of 2,496.  As of 2010, 7.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 7.2%.  Migration accounted for 0.6%, while births and deaths accounted for 3.5%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,857 or 92.9%) as their first language, French is the second most common (23 or 1.2%) and Portuguese is the third (17 or 0.9%).  There are 12 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female.  The population was made up of 924 Swiss men (45.0% of the population) and 88 (4.3%) non-Swiss men.  There were 969 Swiss women (47.2%) and 73 (3.6%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 428 or about 21.4% were born in Hindelbank and lived there in 2000.  There were 947 or 47.4% who were born in the same canton, while 322 or 16.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 219 or 11.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2010, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 20.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.6%.
  As of 2000, there were 793 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 996 married individuals, 111 widows or widowers and 100 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 236 households that consist of only one person and 50 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 784 apartments (92.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 41 apartments (4.8%) were seasonally occupied and 23 apartments (2.7%) were empty.  As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 1 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2011, was 0.5%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Half-timbered house in Hindelbank
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