page_title: Rivaz
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Rivaz / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Genfersee bei Rivaz, in der Bildmitte am Seeufer das Château de Glérolles, im Hintergrund der zu Rivaz gehörende Weiler Sallaz.
context_page_description: Rivaz is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.
context_section_description: Rivaz has a population (as of December 2018) of 358.  As of 2008, 17.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 7.9%.  It has changed at a rate of 0.9% due to migration and at a rate of 8.2% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (265 or 83.6%), with German being second most common (18 or 5.7%) and Portuguese being third (13 or 4.1%).  There are 10 people who speak Italian.
  Of the population in the municipality 104 or about 32.8% were born in Rivaz and lived there in 2000.  There were 108 or 34.1% who were born in the same canton, while 45 or 14.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 51 or 16.1% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and were 2 deaths of Swiss citizens.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population remained the same.  There  was 1 Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 2 non-Swiss men 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 5 and the non-Swiss population remained the same.  This represents a population growth rate of -1.4%.
  The age distribution, as of 2009, in Rivaz is; 40 children or 11.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 43 teenagers or 12.2% are between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 28 people or 7.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  55 people or 15.6% are between 30 and 39, 61 people or 17.3% are between 40 and 49, and 40 people or 11.3% are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 39 people or 11.0% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 32 people or 9.1% are between 70 and 79, there are 14 people or 4.0% who are between 80 and 89, and there is 1 person who is 90 and older.
  As of 2000, there were 126 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 161 married individuals, 15 widows or widowers and 15 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 142 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.1 persons per household.  There were 54 households that consist of only one person and 7 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 148 households that answered this question, 36.5% were households made up of just one person and there were 2 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 38 married couples without children, 41 married couples with children  There were 5 single parents with a child or children.  There were 2 households that were made up of unrelated people and 6 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 33 single family homes (or 36.3% of the total) out of a total of 91 inhabited buildings.  There were 27 multi-family buildings (29.7%), along with 22 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (24.2%) and 9 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (9.9%).  Of the single family homes 22 were built before 1919.  The most multi-family homes (22) were built before 1919 and the next most (2) were built between 1971 and 1980.
  In 2000 there were 166 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 48.  There were 7 single room apartments and 44 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 135 apartments (81.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 22 apartments (13.3%) were seasonally occupied and 9 apartments (5.4%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Rivaz village with train tracks and road
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