page_title: Herbetswil
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Herbetswil / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Cantonal road 30 at Herbetswil, canton of Solothurn, Switzerland Esperanto: Kantona ĉefvojo n-ro 30 en Herbetswil, Kantono Soloturno, Svislando Deutsch: Kantonsstrasse 30 in Herbetswil, Kanton Solothurn, Schweiz
context_page_description: Herbetswil is a municipality in the district of Thal in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Herbetswil has a population (as of December 2018) of 539.  As of 2008, 5.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -8.4%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (546 or 96.1%), with Albanian being second most common (5 or 0.9%) and Arabic being third (5 or 0.9%).  There are 3 people who speak French.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 52.3% male and 47.7% female.  The population was made up of 262 Swiss men (47.0% of the population) and 30 (5.4%) non-Swiss men.  There were 245 Swiss women (43.9%) and 21 (3.8%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 291 or about 51.2% were born in Herbetswil and lived there in 2000.  There were 132 or 23.2% who were born in the same canton, while 102 or 18.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 39 or 6.9% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and there were 4 deaths of Swiss citizens and 2 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population decreased by 2.  There was 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 4 non-Swiss men and 1 non-Swiss woman 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 12 and the non-Swiss population increased by 4 people.  This represents a population growth rate of -1.5%.
  The age distribution, as of 2000, in Herbetswil is; 49 children or 8.6% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 98 teenagers or 17.3% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 24 people or 4.2% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old.  151 people or 26.6% are between 25 and 44, and 151 people or 26.6% are between 45 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 75 people or 13.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and  there are 20 people or 3.5% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 227 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 293 married individuals, 31 widows or widowers and 17 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 221 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.  There were 55 households that consist of only one person and 23 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 223 households that answered this question, 24.7% were households made up of just one person and there were 8 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 63 married couples without children, 86 married couples with children  There were 5 single parents with a child or children.  There were 4 households that were made up of unrelated people and 2 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 105 single family homes (or 59.7% of the total) out of a total of 176 inhabited buildings.  There were 23 multi-family buildings (13.1%), along with 36 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (20.5%) and 12 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (6.8%).  Of the single family homes 18 were built before 1919, while 15 were built between 1990 and 2000.
  In 2000 there were 246 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 68.  There were 7 single room apartments and 101 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 212 apartments (86.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 13 apartments (5.3%) were seasonally occupied and 21 apartments (8.5%) 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 2.41%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Herbetswil municipal border
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