page_title: Lotzwil
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Lotzwil / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Lotzwil, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Lotzwil, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Lotzwil, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Lotzwil is a municipality in the district of Oberaargau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Lotzwil has a population (as of December 2018) of 2,565.  As of 2010, 16.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 6%.  Migration accounted for 10.5%, while births and deaths accounted for -1.3%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (2,109 or 90.4%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (87 or 3.7%) and Italian is the third (42 or 1.8%).  There are 11 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female. The population was made up of 1,015 Swiss men (41.0% of the population) and 245 (9.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,043 Swiss women (42.1%) and 174 (7.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 648 or about 27.8% were born in Lotzwil and lived there in 2000.  There were 934 or 40.0% who were born in the same canton, while 342 or 14.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 336 or 14.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2010, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.6%.
  As of 2000, there were 918 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,133 married individuals, 184 widows or widowers and 99 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 329 households that consist of only one person and 77 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 943 apartments (88.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 55 apartments (5.1%) were seasonally occupied and 72 apartments (6.7%) were empty.  As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 4.4 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2011, was 5.63%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Market in Lotzwil
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