page_title: Romont
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Romont / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Grand-Rue à Romont mit Blick zur Eglise des Capucins
context_page_description: Romont is a municipality and capital of the district of Glâne in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Romont has a population (as of December 2018) of 5,280.  As of 2008, 33.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 13.7%.  Migration accounted for 8.2%, while births and deaths accounted for 3.4%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (3,322 or 83.8%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (245 or 6.2%) and German is the third (93 or 2.3%).  There are 27 people who speak Italian.
  As of 2008, the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female.  The population was made up of 1,342 Swiss men (30.0% of the population) and 879 (19.7%) non-Swiss men.  There were 1,466 Swiss women (32.8%) and 780 (17.5%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 1,210 or about 30.5% were born in Romont and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,112 or 28.1% who were born in the same canton, while 439 or 11.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,027 or 25.9% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.5%.
  As of 2000, there were 1,697 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 1,842 married individuals, 249 widows or widowers and 176 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 1,667 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 609 households that consist of only one person and 140 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 1,627 apartments (83.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 120 apartments (6.2%) were seasonally occupied and 202 apartments (10.4%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 4.6 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.66%.
  
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caption: Main street through Romont
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