page_title: Toffen
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Toffen / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Toffen, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Toffen, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Toffen, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Toffen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It lies approximately 10 km south of the city of Bern.
  The palace situated there, Toffen Castle, is a heritage site of national significance.
context_section_description: Toffen has a population (as of December 2018) of 2,515. As of 2012, 8.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population has changed at a rate of 2.0%. Migration accounted for 1.5%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.2%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (2,112 or 95.0%) as their first language, French is the second most common (28 or 1.3%) and Albanian is the third (18 or 0.8%). There are 11 people who speak Italian and 5 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 48.5% male and 51.5% female. The population was made up of 1,075 Swiss men (43.9% of the population) and 113 (4.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,176 Swiss women (48.0%) and 86 (3.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 509 or about 22.9% were born in Toffen and lived there in 2000. There were 1,182 or 53.2% who were born in the same canton, while 289 or 13.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 182 or 8.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2012, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 20.0% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.3%.
  As of 2000, there were 900 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,139 married individuals, 89 widows or widowers and 95 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 282 households that consist of only one person and 50 households with five or more people. In 2000, a total of 888 apartments (93.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 41 apartments (4.3%) were seasonally occupied and 24 apartments (2.5%) were empty. As of 2012, the construction rate of new housing units was 6.8 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2013, was 1.4%. In 2011, single family homes made up 62.2% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Gasthaus Bären in Toffen
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