page_title: Brissago
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Brissago / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Brissago, Schweiz, Lago Maggiore, die Gemeindeverwaltung
context_page_description: Brissago is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Brissago lies on the western shore of Lake Maggiore and includes the Brissago Islands.
context_section_description: Brissago has a population (as of December 2018) of 1,737.  As of 2008, 18.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 2.6%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks Italian (69.1%), with German being second most common (24.9%) and French being third (1.3%).  Of the Swiss national languages (as of 2000), 456 speak German, 23 people speak French, 1,267 people speak Italian, and 5 people speak Romansh.  The remainder (82 people) speak another language.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 48.1% male and 51.9% female.  The population was made up of 710 Swiss men (38.4% of the population), and 178 (9.6%) non-Swiss men.  There were 800 Swiss women (43.3%), and 159 (8.6%) non-Swiss women.
  In 2008 there were 11 live births to Swiss citizens and 3 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 22 deaths of Swiss citizens and 4 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 11 while the foreign population decreased by 1.  There were 8 Swiss men and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 13 non-Swiss men and 2 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources) was a decrease of 32 and the non-Swiss population change was a decrease of 2 people.  This represents a population growth rate of -1.8%.
  The age distribution, as of 2009, in Brissago is; 107 children or 5.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 130 teenagers or 7.0% are between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 128 people or 6.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  178 people or 9.6% are between 30 and 39, 285 people or 15.4% are between 40 and 49, and 275 people or 14.9% are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 353 people or 19.1% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 223 people or 12.1% are between 70 and 79, there are 168 people or 9.1% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 862 private households in the municipality, and an average of 1.9 persons per household.  In 2000 there were 831 single family homes (or 67.0% of the total) out of a total of 1,241 inhabited buildings.  There were 212 two family buildings (17.1%) and 138 multi-family buildings (11.1%).  There were also 60 buildings in the municipality that were multipurpose buildings (used for both housing and commercial or another purpose).
  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2008, was 0.47%.  In 2000 there were 2,420 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was the 3 room apartment of which there were 771.  There were 170 single room apartments and 336 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 853 apartments (35.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 1,547 apartments (63.9%) were seasonally occupied and 20 apartments (0.8%) were empty.  As of 2007, the construction rate of new housing units was 15.3 new units per 1000 residents.
  The historical population is given in the following table:
caption: Municipal administration building
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