page_title: Boningen
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Boningen / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Boningen, canton of Solothurn, Switzerland Esperanto: Boningen, Kantono Soloturno, Svislando Deutsch: Boningen, Kanton Solothurn, Schweiz
context_page_description: Boningen is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Boningen has a population (as of December 2018) of 772.  As of 2008, 12.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 10.3%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (609 or 95.8%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (10 or 1.6%) and Italian being third (4 or 0.6%).  There is 1 person who speaks French.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female.  The population was made up of 312 Swiss men (43.4% of the population) and 42 (5.8%) non-Swiss men.  There were 316 Swiss women (43.9%) and 49 (6.8%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 201 or about 31.6% were born in Boningen and lived there in 2000.  There were 205 or 32.2% who were born in the same canton, while 159 or 25.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 56 or 8.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 5 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 5 while the foreign population increased by 1.  There  was 1 Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland.  At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss man and 3 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 an increase of 23 and the non-Swiss population increased by 20 people.  This represents a population growth rate of 6.5%.
  The age distribution, as of 2000, in Boningen is; 55 children or 8.6% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 125 teenagers or 19.7% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 41 people or 6.4% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old.  231 people or 36.3% are between 25 and 44, and 121 people or 19.0% are between 45 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 51 people or 8.0% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and  there are 12 people or 1.9% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 297 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 289 married individuals, 23 widows or widowers and 27 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 254 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.  There were 69 households that consist of only one person and 27 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 257 households that answered this question, 26.8% were households made up of just one person and there were 1 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 74 married couples without children, 90 married couples with children  There were 17 single parents with a child or children.  There were 3 households that were made up of unrelated people and 3 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 116 single-family homes (or 71.2% of the total) out of a total of 163 inhabited buildings.  There were 27 multi-family buildings (16.6%), along with 15 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (9.2%) and 5 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.1%).  Of the single-family homes 8 were built before 1919, while 21 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single-family homes (46) were built between 1981 and 1990.
  In 2000 there were 257 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 79.  There were 4 single-room apartments and 97 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 244 apartments (94.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5 apartments (1.9%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (3.1%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 8.4 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.67%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Multi-purpose building in Boningen
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