page_title: Leuk
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Leuk / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue de La Souste en Valais
context_page_description: Leuk is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Erschmatt merged into the municipality of Leuk.
  Since it controls access to the Gemmi Pass, it had some importance from the time of Roman Raetia. The Leukerbad thermal baths are just north of Leuk, towards the pass. It is the capital of the Leuk district of the Valais.
  Leuk is home to one of the known installations of Onyx, the Swiss interception system for signals intelligence gathering.
context_section_description: Leuk has a population (as of December 2018) of 3,949.  As of 2008, 11.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 4.7%.  It has changed at a rate of 3.3% due to migration and at a rate of 1.1% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (3,118 or 92.8%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (79 or 2.4%) and French is the third (52 or 1.5%).  There are 15 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female.  The population was made up of 1,526 Swiss men (43.8% of the population) and 203 (5.8%) non-Swiss men.  There were 1,573 Swiss women (45.1%) and 184 (5.3%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 1,617 or about 48.1% were born in Leuk and lived there in 2000.  There were 985 or 29.3% who were born in the same canton, while 319 or 9.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 295 or 8.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
  The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.2%.
  As of 2000, there were 1,401 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 1,602 married individuals, 221 widows or widowers and 137 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 1,209 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.  There were 330 households that consist of only one person and 124 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 1,264 households that answered this question, 26.1% were households made up of just one person and there were 14 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 328 married couples without children, 455 married couples with children  There were 64 single parents with a child or children.  There were 18 households that were made up of unrelated people and 55 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 534 single family homes (or 62.1% of the total) out of a total of 860 inhabited buildings.  There were 217 multi-family buildings (25.2%), along with 59 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (6.9%) and 50 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.8%).
  In 2000, a total of 1,126 apartments (79.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 241 apartments (17.0%) were seasonally occupied and 50 apartments (3.5%) were empty.  As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 2.3 new units per 1000 residents.  The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 0.84%.
  The historical population is given in the following chart:
caption: La Souste/Susten
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