page_title: Châtel-Saint-Denis
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Châtel-Saint-Denis / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: View of Châtel-St-Denis
context_page_description: Châtel-Saint-Denis is a municipality and district capital of the district of Veveyse in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Châtel-Saint-Denis has a population (as of December 2018) of 6,971.  As of 2008, 23.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 36.2%.  Migration accounted for 28.6%, while births and deaths accounted for 3.5%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (3,909 or 89.1%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (193 or 4.4%) and German is the third (118 or 2.7%).  There are 34 people who speak Italian.
  As of 2008, the population was 50.5% male and 49.5% female.  The population was made up of 2,110 Swiss men (37.3% of the population) and 743 (13.1%) non-Swiss men.  There were 2,178 Swiss women (38.5%) and 622 (11.0%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 1,634 or about 37.2% were born in Châtel-Saint-Denis and lived there in 2000.  There were 759 or 17.3% who were born in the same canton, while 1,000 or 22.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 808 or 18.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.5%.
  As of 2000, there were 1,790 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 2,084 married individuals, 258 widows or widowers and 257 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 1,826 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 638 households that consist of only one person and 103 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 1,756 apartments (72.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 549 apartments (22.7%) were seasonally occupied and 117 apartments (4.8%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 9.2 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.14%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: New development around Châtel-Saint-Denis
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