page_title: Laufen, Switzerland
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Laufen, Switzerland / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Birsmillgebäude anno 1901
context_page_description: Laufen is a municipality and the capital of the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
  Laufen is a principal train station for the surrounding area, connecting it to Basel.
context_section_description: Laufen has a population (as of March 2019) of 5,685.  As of 2008, 22.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 10.8%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (4,020 or 82.8%), with Italian language being second most common (333 or 6.9%) and Spanish being third (125 or 2.6%).  There are 72 people who speak French and 4 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 49.4% male and 50.6% female.  The population was made up of 4,016 Swiss citizens (76.2% of the population), and 1,252 non-Swiss residents (23.8%)  Of the population in the municipality 1,553 or about 32.0% were born in Laufen and lived there in 2000.  There were 794 or 16.3% who were born in the same canton, while 1,339 or 27.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,005 or 20.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 35 live births to Swiss citizens and 11 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 38 deaths of Swiss citizens and 5 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 6.  There were 12 Swiss men and 7 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 14 non-Swiss men and 24 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 13 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 12 people.  This represents a population growth rate of 0.0%.
  The age distribution, as of 2010, in Laufen is; 338 children or 6.4% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 747 teenagers or 14.2% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 714 people or 13.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  688 people or 13.1% are between 30 and 39, 902 people or 17.1% are between 40 and 49, and 987 people or 18.7% are between 50 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 657 people or 12.5% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and  there are 235 people or 4.5% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 2,081 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 2,234 married individuals, 301 widows or widowers and 241 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 2,085 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 701 households that consist of only one person and 135 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 2,116 households that answered this question, 33.1% were households made up of just one person and 17 were adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households,  there are 571 married couples without children, 606 married couples with children  There were 151 single parents with a child or children.  There were 39 households that were made up unrelated people and 31 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 625 single-family homes (or 60.4% of the total) out of a total of 1,035 inhabited buildings.  There were 191 multi-family buildings (18.5%), along with 130 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (12.6%) and 89 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.6%).  Of the single-family homes 40 were built before 1919, while 73 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single-family homes (142) were built between 1981 and 1990.
  In 2000 there were 2,226 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 634.  There were 86 single-room apartments and 595 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 2,028 apartments (91.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 130 apartments (5.8%) were seasonally occupied and 68 apartments (3.1%) were empty.  As of 2007, the construction rate of new housing units was
caption: Mill in Laufen in 1901
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