Historic Population
The historical population is given in the following chart:
| Historic Population Data | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Total Population | French Speaking | German Speaking | Catholic | Protestant | Other | Jewish | Islamic | No religion given | Swiss | Non-Swiss |
| 1850 | 3,307 | 3,213 | 94 | 3,073 | 234 | ||||||
| 1870 | 5,456 | 5,178 | 296 | 4,857 | 618 | ||||||
| 1888 | 6,099 | 3,641 | 2,273 | 5,787 | 310 | 10 | 5,476 | 623 | |||
| 1900 | 6,751 | 4,892 | 1,733 | 6,417 | 319 | 1 | 9 | 5,972 | 779 | ||
| 1910 | 7,254 | 5,318 | 1,695 | 6,855 | 381 | 11 | 10 | 6,379 | 875 | ||
| 1930 | 8,657 | 6,726 | 1,633 | 8,168 | 472 | 11 | 3 | 7,931 | 726 | ||
| 1950 | 11,770 | 9,604 | 1,797 | 10,967 | 767 | 16 | 5 | 11,065 | 705 | ||
| 1970 | 21,925 | 16,478 | 2,646 | 20,458 | 1,333 | 755 | 12 | 33 | 51 | 18,411 | 3,514 |
| 1990 | 25,336 | 19,430 | 1,735 | 22,263 | 1,400 | 3,028 | 12 | 430 | 707 | 19,524 | 5,812 |
| 2000 | 27,171 | 22,338 | 1,523 | 21,220 | 1,419 | 2,455 | 15 | 1,360 | 1,371 | 20,360 | 6,811 |
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