page_title: Busswil bei Melchnau
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Busswil bei Melchnau / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Busswil bei Melchnau, canton of Bern, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Busswil ĉe Melchnau, Kantono Berno, SvislandoDeutsch: Busswil bei Melchnau, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Busswil bei Melchnau is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Busswil bei Melchnau has a population (as of December 2018) of 188.  As of 2010, 7.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 5.8%.  Migration accounted for 8.4%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.5%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (190 or 97.4%) as their first language, Arabic is the second most common (2 or 1.0%) and French is the third (1 or 0.5%).
  As of 2008, the population was 51.7% male and 48.3% female.  The population was made up of 99 Swiss men (49.3% of the population) and 5 (2.5%) non-Swiss men.  There were 88 Swiss women (43.8%) and 9 (4.5%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 77 or about 39.5% were born in Busswil bei Melchnau and lived there in 2000.  There were 65 or 33.3% who were born in the same canton, while 38 or 19.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 7 or 3.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2010, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 19.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.9%.
  As of 2000, there were 72 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 97 married individuals, 15 widows or widowers and 11 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 17 households that consist of only one person and 3 households with five or more people.  In 2000, a total of 77 apartments (83.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 6 apartments (6.5%) were seasonally occupied and 9 apartments (9.8%) were empty.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2011, was 1.01%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Busswil village
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