page_title: Saint-Cergue
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Saint-Cergue / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La Mairie du Saint-Cergue Deutsch: Die Gemeindeverwaltung von Saint-Cergue
context_page_description: Saint-Cergue is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Saint-Cergue has a population (as of December 2018) of 2,575.  As of 2008, 27.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 25.1%.  It has changed at a rate of 21.3% due to migration and at a rate of 3.9% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (1,379 or 86.1%), with German being second most common (79 or 4.9%) and English being third (67 or 4.2%).  There are 15 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh.
  The age distribution, as of 2009, in Saint-Cergue is; 158 children or 8.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 259 teenagers or 13.3% are between 10 and 19.  Of the adult population, 195 people or 10.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  215 people or 11.1% are between 30 and 39, 431 people or 22.2% are between 40 and 49, and 291 people or 15.0% are between 50 and 59.  The senior population distribution is 222 people or 11.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 99 people or 5.1% are between 70 and 79, there are 62 people or 3.2% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 12 people or 0.6% who are 90 and older.
  As of 2000, there were 637 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 791 married individuals, 45 widows or widowers and 128 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 653 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 203 households that consist of only one person and 39 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 677 households that answered this question, 30.0% 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 191 married couples without children, 203 married couples with children  There were 40 single parents with a child or children.  There were 13 households that were made up of unrelated people and 24 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 630 single family homes (or 77.8% of the total) out of a total of 810 inhabited buildings.  There were 105 multi-family buildings (13.0%), along with 26 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (3.2%) and 49 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (6.0%).
  In 2000, a total of 626 apartments (46.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 643 apartments (47.5%) were seasonally occupied and 84 apartments (6.2%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 2 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 4.41%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: Town hall of Saint-Cergue
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