page_title: Aegerten
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Aegerten / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Aegerten, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Aegerten, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Aegerten, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Aegerten is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Aegerten has a population (as of December 2018) of 2,159.  As of 2010, 13.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2001-2011) the population has changed at a rate of -0.1%.  Migration accounted for -0.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.6%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,512 or 90.9%) as their first language, French is the second most common (70 or 4.2%) and Italian is the third (22 or 1.3%).
  As of 2008, the population was 49.9% male and 50.1% female.  The population was made up of 735 Swiss men (42.5% of the population) and 128 (7.4%) non-Swiss men.  There were 757 Swiss women (43.8%) and 11 (0.6%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 327 or about 19.7% were born in Aegerten and lived there in 2000.  There were 815 or 49.0% who were born in the same canton, while 298 or 17.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 174 or 10.5% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2011, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 18.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 21.2%.
  As of 2000, there were 606 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 908 married individuals, 72 widows or widowers and 77 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 263 households that consist of only one person and 37 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 684 apartments (90.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 32 apartments (4.2%) were seasonally occupied and 43 apartments (5.7%) were empty.  As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 5.8 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2012, was 3.9%.  In 2011, single family homes made up 72.3% of the total housing in the municipality.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Houses in Aegerten
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