page_title: Rubigen
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Rubigen / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Beitenwil, municipality of Rubigen, canton of Bern, Switzerland Esperanto: Beitenwil, komunumo Rubigen, Kantono Berno, Svislando Deutsch: Beitenwil, Gemeinde Rubigen, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Rubigen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Rubigen has a population (as of December 2018) of 2,929. As of 2010, 7.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2001-2011) the population has changed at a rate of -0.1%. Migration accounted for -0.6%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.5%.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (2,296 or 91.8%) as their first language, French is the second most common (39 or 1.6%) and Italian is the third (33 or 1.3%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh.
  As of 2008, the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 1,320 Swiss men (46.1% of the population) and 98 (3.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,331 Swiss women (46.5%) and 116 (4.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 429 or about 17.1% were born in Rubigen and lived there in 2000. There were 1,287 or 51.4% who were born in the same canton, while 438 or 17.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 268 or 10.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
  As of 2011, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 20.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 64.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.7%.
  As of 2000, there were 1,077 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,183 married individuals, 119 widows or widowers and 123 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2010, there were 357 households that consist of only one person and 55 households with five or more people. In 2000, a total of 966 apartments (92.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 62 apartments (5.9%) were seasonally occupied and 21 apartments (2.0%) were empty. As of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 0.7 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2011, was 1.42%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Half-timbered house in Rubigen
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