Demographics
The Val-de-Ruz has a population (as of December 2011) of 15,993.
Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (13,144 or 90.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (451 or 3.1%) and Italian is the third (255 or 1.8%). There are 10 people who speak Romansh.
As of 2008, the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. The population was made up of 6,698 Swiss men (42.3% of the population) and 1,154 (7.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 7,069 Swiss women (44.7%) and 906 (5.7%) non-Swiss women.
Of the population in the district, 3,325 or about 22.9% were born in Val-de-Ruz and lived there in 2000. There were 5,449 or 37.5% who were born in the same canton, while 2,953 or 20.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 2,373 or 16.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
As of 2000, there were 6,000 people who were single and never married in the district. There were 7,024 married individuals, 713 widows or widowers and 791 individuals who are divorced.
There were 1,655 households that consist of only one person and 440 households with five or more people.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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