page_title: Meinisberg
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Meinisberg / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Meinisberg, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Meinisberg, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Meinisberg, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Meinisberg is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Meinisberg has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,303.  As of 2010, 10.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 6.7%.  Migration accounted for 4.2%, while births and deaths accounted for 3%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,070 or 90.0%) as their first language, French is the second most common (46 or 3.9%) and Albanian is the third (18 or 1.5%).  There are 7 people who speak Italian.
  As of 2008, the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female.  The population was made up of 564 Swiss men (44.4% of the population) and 76 (6.0%) non-Swiss men.  There were 575 Swiss women (45.2%) and 5 (0.4%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 328 or about 27.6% were born in Meinisberg and lived there in 2000.  There were 515 or 43.3% who were born in the same canton, while 190 or 16.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 127 or 10.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2010, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 57.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.7%.
  As of 2000, there were 450 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 646 married individuals, 49 widows or widowers and 44 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 97 households that consist of only one person and 30 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 460 apartments (93.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 15 apartments (3.1%) were seasonally occupied and 16 apartments (3.3%) were empty.  As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 3.9 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2011, was 1.96%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Farmhouse in Meinisberg
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