page_title: Herrliberg
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Herrliberg / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Herrliberg am 21. Mai 1786, Aquarell von Hans C. Escher von der Linth
context_page_description: Herrliberg is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Herrliberg has a population (as of 31 December 2018) of 6,391.  As of 2007, 14.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.  As of 2008 the gender distribution of the population was 48.5% male and 51.5% female.  Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 13.8%.  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German  (89.2%), with English being second most common ( 2.9%) and French being third ( 2.2%).
  In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 41% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the FDP (26.5%), the SPS (10%) and the CSP (8.8%).
  The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16%.  The entire Swiss population is generally well educated.  In Herrliberg about 88.5% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).  There are 2422 households in Herrliberg.
  Herrliberg has an unemployment rate of 1.48%.  As of 2005, there were 94 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 25 businesses involved in this sector.  122 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 29 businesses in this sector.  785 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 194 businesses in this sector.  As of 2007 55.6% of the working population were employed full-time, and 44.4% were employed part-time.
  As of 2008 there were 1571 Catholics and 2564 Protestants in Herrliberg.  In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories.  From the census, 52.3% were some type of Protestant, with 50.8% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 1.5% belonging to other Protestant churches.  26.6% of the population were Catholic.  Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 3.7% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.6% did not give a religion, and 14.5% were atheist or agnostic.
  The historical population is given in the following table:
caption: Herrliberg on 21 May 1786, watercolor by Hans C. Escher of the Linth
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