Inden, Switzerland - Demographics

Demographics

Inden has a population (as of December 2011) of 111. As of 2008, 9.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5.5%. It has changed at a rate of 21.8% due to migration and at a rate of -5.5% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (82 or 92.1%) as their first language, French is the second most common (3 or 3.4%) and Italian is the third (2 or 2.2%).

As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. The population was made up of 46 Swiss men (39.7% of the population) and 12 (10.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 50 Swiss women (43.1%) and 8 (6.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 18 or about 20.2% were born in Inden and lived there in 2000. There were 37 or 41.6% who were born in the same canton, while 18 or 20.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 15 or 16.9% were born outside of Switzerland.

The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 18% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 57.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 24.7%.

As of 2000, there were 32 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 40 married individuals, 12 widows or widowers and 5 individuals who are divorced.

As of 2000, there were 43 private households in the municipality, and an average of 1.9 persons per household. There were 19 households that consist of only one person and households with five or more people. Out of a total of 45 households that answered this question, 42.2% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 10 married couples without children, 9 married couples with children There were 2 single parents with a child or children. There were 3 households that were made up of unrelated people and 2 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

In 2000 there were 55 single family homes (or 67.1% of the total) out of a total of 82 inhabited buildings. There were 17 multi-family buildings (20.7%), along with 6 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (7.3%) and 4 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.9%).

In 2000, a total of 42 apartments (31.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 81 apartments (60.4%) were seasonally occupied and 11 apartments (8.2%) were empty. As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 8.6 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 4.38%.

The historical population is given in the following chart: