Deitingen - Demographics

Demographics

Deitingen has a population (as of December 2011) of 2,213. As of 2008, 9.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 7.5%. It has changed at a rate of 5.4% due to migration and at a rate of 0.8% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (1,893 or 94.1%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (25 or 1.2%) and Italian being third (23 or 1.1%). There are 9 people who speak French.

As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. The population was made up of 964 Swiss men (44.8% of the population) and 106 (4.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 995 Swiss women (46.2%) and 89 (4.1%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 779 or about 38.7% were born in Deitingen and lived there in 2000. There were 548 or 27.3% who were born in the same canton, while 420 or 20.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 189 or 9.4% were born outside of Switzerland.

In 2008 there were 15 live births to Swiss citizens and 3 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 13 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 3. There was 1 Swiss man and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men and 1 non-Swiss woman 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 5 and the non-Swiss population increased by 10 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.2%.

The age distribution, as of 2000, in Deitingen is; 143 children or 7.1% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 366 teenagers or 18.2% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 116 people or 5.8% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old. 539 people or 26.8% are between 25 and 44, and 548 people or 27.3% are between 45 and 64. The senior population distribution is 213 people or 10.6% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 86 people or 4.3% who are over 80.

As of 2000, there were 795 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,016 married individuals, 114 widows or widowers and 86 individuals who are divorced.


As of 2000, there were 772 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 189 households that consist of only one person and 77 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 781 households that answered this question, 24.2% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 258 married couples without children, 287 married couples with children There were 31 single parents with a child or children. There were 4 households that were made up of unrelated people and 9 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.

In 2000 there were 402 single family homes (or 70.5% of the total) out of a total of 570 inhabited buildings. There were 92 multi-family buildings (16.1%), along with 52 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (9.1%) and 24 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.2%). Of the single family homes 25 were built before 1919, while 56 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (99) were built between 1946 and 1960.

In 2000 there were 802 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 283. There were 9 single room apartments and 351 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 759 apartments (94.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 24 apartments (3.0%) were seasonally occupied and 19 apartments (2.4%) were empty. As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 9.8 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 1.1%.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

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