page_title: Oberschrot
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Oberschrot / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bauernhaus in Oberschrot, Kanton Freiburg, Schweiz
context_page_description: Oberschrot was a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Oberschrot and Zumholz merged into the municipality of Plaffeien.
context_section_description: Oberschrot had a population (as of 2015) of 1,185.  As of 2008, 3.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 9.8%.  Migration accounted for 10.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.1%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (966 or 96.0%) as their first language, French is the second most common (23 or 2.3%) and English is the third (7 or 0.7%).  There are 3 people who speak Italian.
  As of 2008, the population was 47.7% male and 52.3% female.  The population was made up of 509 Swiss men (46.0% of the population) and 19 (1.7%) non-Swiss men.  There were 569 Swiss women (51.4%) and 9 (0.8%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 429 or about 42.6% were born in Oberschrot and lived there in 2000.  There were 429 or 42.6% who were born in the same canton, while 86 or 8.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 32 or 3.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 57% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15%.
  As of 2000, there were 467 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 436 married individuals, 75 widows or widowers and 28 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 352 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.  There were 87 households that consist of only one person and 41 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 336 apartments (91.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 23 apartments (6.3%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (2.2%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 8.2 new units per 1000 residents.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Farm house in Oberschrot
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