Editing Bellwald (section)

==Demographics==
[[File:Bellwald 01.jpg|thumb|Bellwald village]]
[[File:Fieschergletscher Ried 2010.jpg|thumb|upright|Ried village in Bellwald]]
Bellwald has a population ({{as of|{{Swiss populations YM|CH-VS}}|lc=on}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-VS|6052}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-VS}}  {{as of|2008}}, 15.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals.<ref name=HDS_superweb>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/onlinedb/superweb/login.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628151016/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/onlinedb/superweb/login.html |date=28 June 2010 }} {{in lang|de}} Retrieved 19 June 2010</ref> Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -6.5%.  It has changed at a rate of -3.3% due to migration and at a rate of 2.4% due to births and deaths.<ref name=SFSO>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105172441/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html |date=5 January 2016 }} Retrieved 7 September 2011</ref>

Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks [[German language|German]] (375 or 87.8%) as their first language, [[Serbo-Croatian]] is the second most common (16 or 3.7%) and [[Albanian language|Albanian]] is the third (12 or 2.8%).  There are 3 people who speak [[French language|French]], 1 person who speaks [[Italian language|Italian]].<ref name=STAT2000/>

{{as of|2008}}, the gender distribution of the population was 51.5% male and 48.5% female.  The population was made up of 199 Swiss men (43.4% of the population) and 37 (8.1%) non-Swiss men.  There were 189 Swiss women (41.3%) and 33 (7.2%) non-Swiss women.<ref name=VS_Pop>[http://www.vs.ch/Navig/navig.asp?MenuID=14752 Ständige Wohnbevolkerung nach Geschlecht und Heimat am 31.12.2009.xls] {{in lang|de|fr}} Retrieved 24 August 2011</ref> Of the population in the municipality 217 or about 50.8% were born in Bellwald and lived there in 2000.  There were 69 or 16.2% who were born in the same canton, while 59 or 13.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 71 or 16.6% were born outside of Switzerland.<ref name=STAT2000/>

The age distribution of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 57.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.6%.<ref name=SFSO/>

{{as of|2000}}, there were 166 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 233 married individuals, 26 widows or widowers and 2 individuals who are divorced.<ref name=STAT2000>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.3%20-%202000/40.3%20-%202000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=3&openChild=true STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809142611/http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.3%20-%202000/40.3%20-%202000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=3&openChild=true |date=9 August 2013 }}  {{in lang|de}} Retrieved 2 February 2011</ref>

{{as of|2000}}, there were 175 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household.<ref name=SFSO/> There were 56 households that consist of only one person and 12 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 179 households that answered this question, 31.3% were households made up of just one person and there were 4 adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households, there are 49 married couples without children, 62 married couples with children There were 2 single parents with a child or children.  There were 2 households that were made up of unrelated people and 4 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.<ref name=STAT2000/>

{{as of|2000|alt=In 2000}} there were 433 single family homes (or 75.2% of the total) out of a total of 576 inhabited buildings.  There were 96 multi-family buildings (16.7%), along with 17 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (3.0%) and 30 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.2%).<ref name=Housing>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_09%20-%20Bau-%20und%20Wohnungswesen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen.asp?lang=1&prod=09&secprod=2&openChild=true Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907111534/http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_09%20-%20Bau-%20und%20Wohnungswesen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen.asp?lang=1&prod=09&secprod=2&openChild=true |date=7 September 2014 }} {{in lang|de}} Retrieved 28 January 2011</ref>

{{as of|2000|alt=In 2000}}, a total of 158 apartments (20.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 570 apartments (72.2%) were seasonally occupied and 62 apartments (7.8%) were empty.<ref name=Housing/>  {{as of|2009}}, the construction rate of new housing units was 34.9 new units per 1000 residents.<ref name=SFSO/> The vacancy rate for the municipality, {{as of|2010|alt=in 2010}}, was 2.52%.<ref name=SFSO/>

The historical population is given in the following chart:<ref name=HDS>{{HDS|2682|Bellwald}}</ref><ref>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.4%20-%201850-2000/40.4%20-%201850-2000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=4&openChild=true Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach Region, 1850-2000] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140930162751/http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.4%20-%201850-2000/40.4%20-%201850-2000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=4&openChild=true |date=30 September 2014 }} {{in lang|de}} Retrieved 29 January 2011</ref>
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