Demographics
Buus has a population (as of December 2011) of 952. As of 2008, 7.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 9.5%.
Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (876 or 96.4%), with Albanian being second most common (15 or 1.7%) and English being third (4 or 0.4%). There is 1 person who speaksFrench while no one speaks Romansh.
As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 876 Swiss citizens (92.2% of the population), and 74 non-Swiss residents (7.8%) Of the population in the municipality 395 or about 43.5% were born in Buus and lived there in 2000. There were 185 or 20.4% who were born in the same canton, while 250 or 27.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 73 or 8.0% were born outside of Switzerland.
In 2008 there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and were 6 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 2 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man and 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland to another country and 4 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 a decrease of 18 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 4 people. This represents a population growth rate of -2.3%.
The age distribution, as of 2010, in Buus is; 64 children or 6.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 140 teenagers or 14.7% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 96 people or 10.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 100 people or 10.5% are between 30 and 39, 181 people or 19.1% are between 40 and 49, and 202 people or 21.3% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 122 people or 12.8% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 45 people or 4.7% who are over 80.
As of 2000, there were 373 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 476 married individuals, 35 widows or widowers and 25 individuals who are divorced.
As of 2000 the average number of residents per living room was 0.59 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.56 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m2 (43 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 70.6% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement).
As of 2000, there were 341 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 75 households that consist of only one person and 39 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 346 households that answered this question, 21.7% were households made up of just one person and 6 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 111 married couples without children, 134 married couples with children There were 9 single parents with a child or children. There were 6 households that were made up unrelated people and 5 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing.
In 2000 there were 163 single family homes (or 59.9% of the total) out of a total of 272 inhabited buildings. There were 31 multi-family buildings (11.4%), along with 68 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (25.0%) and 10 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.7%). Of the single family homes 29 were built before 1919, while 59 were built between 1990 and 2000.
In 2000 there were 361 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 108. There were 9 single room apartments and 168 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 330 apartments (91.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 13 apartments (3.6%) were seasonally occupied and 18 apartments (5.0%) were empty. As of 2007, the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. As of 2000 the average price to rent a two room apartment was about 661.00 CHF (US$530, £300, €420), a three room apartment was about 1071.00 CHF (US$860, £480, €690) and a four room apartment cost an average of 1375.00 CHF (US$1100, £620, €880). The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2008, was 0.78%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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