page_title: Les Brenets
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Les Brenets / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick auf Les Brenets
context_page_description: Les Brenets is a municipality in the district of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Les Brenets has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,044.  As of 2008, 11.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of -7.9%.  It has changed at a rate of -7.2% due to migration and at a rate of 0.3% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (1,106 or 95.0%) as their first language, German is the second most common (23 or 2.0%) and Italian is the third (18 or 1.5%).
  As of 2008, the population was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.  The population was made up of 473 Swiss men (43.4% of the population) and 59 (5.4%) non-Swiss men.  There were 499 Swiss women (45.8%) and 58 (5.3%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 342 or about 29.4% were born in Les Brenets and lived there in 2000.  There were 382 or 32.8% who were born in the same canton, while 189 or 16.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 213 or 18.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2000, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.3%.
  As of 2000, there were 416 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 584 married individuals, 81 widows or widowers and 83 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 482 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 142 households that consist of only one person and 32 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 461 apartments (84.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 56 apartments (10.2%) were seasonally occupied and 31 apartments (5.7%) were empty.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 5.47%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Les Brenets village
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