Demographics
Reichenbach im Kandertal has a population (as of December 2011) of 3,449. As of 2010, 3.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of 6.3%. Migration accounted for 2.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.4%.
Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (3,230 or 97.1%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (26 or 0.8%) and French is the third (17 or 0.5%). There are 6 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
As of 2008, the population was 49.1% male and 50.9% female. The population was made up of 1,621 Swiss men (47.2% of the population) and 65 (1.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,677 Swiss women (48.8%) and 70 (2.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 1,690 or about 50.8% were born in Reichenbach im Kandertal and lived there in 2000. There were 1,089 or 32.8% who were born in the same canton, while 257 or 7.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 140 or 4.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
As of 2010, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 22.2% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 58.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.7%.
As of 2000, there were 1,377 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,642 married individuals, 222 widows or widowers and 84 individuals who are divorced.
As of 2000, there were 359 households that consist of only one person and 136 households with five or more people. In 2000, a total of 1,221 apartments (71.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 351 apartments (20.7%) were seasonally occupied and 126 apartments (7.4%) were empty. As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 7.9 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2011, was 0.6%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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