page_title: Orbe
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Orbe / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Casino d'Orbe, vue depuis la gare.
context_page_description: Orbe is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the former district of Orbe and is now part of the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
context_section_description: Orbe has a population (as of December 2018) of 6,938.  As of 2008, 28.6% of the population is resident foreign nationals.  Over the years 1999–2009, the population has changed at a rate of 25.8%, 22.1% due to migration and 4.3% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (4,229 or 82.3%), with Portuguese being second-most common (255 or 5.0%) and German being third (161 or 3.1%).  There are 128 people who speak Italian and four people who speak Romansh.
  The age distribution, as of 2009, in Orbe is 674 children (11.3%) up to 9 years old and 781 youth (13.1%) between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 862 people (14.5%) are between 20 and 29 years old, 848 people (14.2%) are between 30 and 39, 920 people (15.4%) are between 40 and 49, and 754 people (12.7%) are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 493 people (8.3%) between 60 and 69 years old, 378 people (6.3%) between 70 and 79, 216 people (3.6%) between 80 and 89, and 31 people (0.5%) 90 and older.
  As of 2000, 2,103 people were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 2,441 married individuals, 304 widows or widowers, and 291 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, 2,073 private households were in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  The 687 households had only one person and 120 households had five or more people.  Of a total of 2,108 households that answered this question, 32.6% were households made up of just one person and 16 were adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, 578 were married couples without children, 642 were married couples with children, and 120 were single parents with a child or children.  Thirty households were made up of unrelated people and 35 households were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000, 529 of a total of 968 inhabited buildings were single family homes (54.6%).  There were 222 multifamily buildings (22.9%), along with 154 multipurpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (15.9%) and 63 other-use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (6.5%).
  In 2000, a total of 1,934 apartments (84.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 208 apartments (9.1%) were seasonally occupied, and 141 apartments (6.2%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 5.4 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.18%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Casino Orbe
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