page_title: Roggwil, Bern
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Roggwil, Bern / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Roggwil, canton of Bern, Switzerland Esperanto: Roggwil, Kantono Berno, Svislando Deutsch: Roggwil, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Roggwil is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Roggwil has a population (as of December 2018) of 4,083.  As of 2010, 12.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 6%.  Migration accounted for 9%, while births and deaths accounted for -2.6%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (3,317 or 92.1%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (72 or 2.0%) and Albanian is the third (46 or 1.3%).  There are 10 people who speak French.
  As of 2008, the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female.  The population was made up of 1,637 Swiss men (42.6% of the population) and 268 (7.0%) non-Swiss men.  There were 1,712 Swiss women (44.6%) and 223 (5.8%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 1,117 or about 31.0% were born in Roggwil and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,170 or 32.5% who were born in the same canton, while 763 or 21.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 441 or 12.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2010, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.9%.
  As of 2000, there were 1,386 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 1,770 married individuals, 252 widows or widowers and 192 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 414 households that consist of only one person and 119 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 1,409 apartments (88.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 88 apartments (5.5%) were seasonally occupied and 97 apartments (6.1%) were empty.  As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 2.9 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2011, was 2.55%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Older houses in Roggwil
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