page_title: Luterbach
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Luterbach / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: River and farm house in Luterbach, Switzerland
context_page_description: Luterbach is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Luterbach has a population (as of December 2018) of 3,480.  As of 2008, 14.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 4.3%.  It has changed at a rate of 4.6% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths.
  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (2,818 or 90.6%), with Italian being second most common (89 or 2.9%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (60 or 1.9%).  There are 12 people who speak French and 2 people who speak Romansh.
  As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.  The population was made up of 1,332 Swiss men (40.1% of the population) and 292 (8.8%) non-Swiss men.  There were 1,446 Swiss women (43.6%) and 250 (7.5%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality 858 or about 27.6% were born in Luterbach and lived there in 2000.  There were 1,020 or 32.8% who were born in the same canton, while 710 or 22.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 429 or 13.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
  In 2008 there were 22 live births to Swiss citizens and 5 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 23 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 1 while the foreign population increased by 4.  There was 1 Swiss man and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men and 4 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 19 and the non-Swiss population increased by 18 people.  This represents a population growth rate of 1.2%.
  The age distribution, as of 2000, in Luterbach is; 223 children or 7.2% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 468 teenagers or 15.0% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 146 people or 4.7% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old.  983 people or 31.6% are between 25 and 44, and 819 people or 26.3% are between 45 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 365 people or 11.7% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 108 people or 3.5% who are over 80.
  As of 2000, there were 1,217 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 1,519 married individuals, 186 widows or widowers and 190 individuals who are divorced.
  As of 2000, there were 1,343 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.  There were 424 households that consist of only one person and 80 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 1,357 households that answered this question, 31.2% were households made up of just one person and there were 9 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 442 married couples without children, 392 married couples with children  There were 59 single parents with a child or children.  There were 17 households that were made up of unrelated people and 14 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
  In 2000 there were 481 single family homes (or 65.8% of the total) out of a total of 731 inhabited buildings.  There were 168 multi-family buildings (23.0%), along with 51 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (7.0%) and 31 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.2%).  Of the single family homes 27 were built before 1919, while 43 were built between 1990 and 2000.  The greatest number of single family homes (121) were built between 1946 and 1960.
  In 2000 there were 1,432 apartments in the municipality.  The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 453.  There were 48 single room apartments and 478 apartments with five or more rooms.  Of these apartments, a total of 1,319 apartments (92.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 74 apartments (5.2%) were seasonally occup
caption: Farm house near a stream in Luterbach
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