Davos Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Demographics== [[File:Davos town.jpg|thumb|Davos with the [[Vaillant Arena]] (center).]] ===Population=== Davos has a population ({{as of|{{Swiss populations YM|CH-GR}}|lc=on}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-GR|3851}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-GR}} {{as of|2014}}, 27.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. In 2015 7.3% of the population was born in Germany and 6.9% of the population was born in Portugal.<ref>[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/kataloge-datenbanken/daten.assetdetail.325718.html Federal Statistical Office - StĂ€ndige und nichtstĂ€ndige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geburtsort und Staatsangehörigkeit (Land)] accessed 31 October 2016</ref> Over the last four years (2010â2014) the population has changed at a rate of -0.27%. The [[birth rate]] in the municipality, in 2014, was 9.1, while the [[death rate]] was 8.2 per thousand residents.<ref name=SFSO2016/> Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks [[German language|German]] (86.3%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (2.8%) and Italian being third (2.7%).<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 }} accessed 28-Oct-2009</ref> {{as of|2014}}, children and teenagers (0â19 years old) make up 17.3% of the population, while adults (20â64 years old) are 64.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.2%.<ref name=SFSO2016/> In 2015 there were 5,099 single residents, 4,666 people who were married or in a civil partnership, 550 widows or widowers and 794 divorced residents.<ref>[https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Default.aspx?px_language=de Swiss Federal Statistical Office - StĂ€ndige und nichtstĂ€ndige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geschlecht, Zivilstand und Geburtsort] {{in lang|de}} accessed 8 September 2016</ref> In 2014 there were 5,441 private households in Davos with an average household size of 2.03 persons. Of the 2,133 inhabited buildings in the municipality, in 2000, about 30.7% were single family homes and 39.1% were multiple family buildings. Additionally, about 25.9% of the buildings were built before 1919, while 8.3% were built between 1991 and 2000.<ref name=Housing>[https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/ Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Thema 09 - Bau- und Wohnungswesen ] {{in lang|de}} accessed 5 May 2016</ref> In 2013 the rate of construction of new housing units per 1000 residents was 23.46. The vacancy rate for the municipality, {{as of|2015|alt=in 2015}}, was 0.71%.<ref name=SFSO2016/> ====Historic population==== The historic population is given in the following chart:<ref>[https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/default.aspx?px_language=de Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, 1850-2000 ] {{in lang|de}} accessed 27 April 2016</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gemeindedavos.ch/de/ueberdavos/fakten/gemeindeinzahlen/|title=Gemeinde Davos: Davos in Zahlen|website=www.gemeindedavos.ch|access-date=2020-02-03|archive-date=3 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203230800/http://www.gemeindedavos.ch/de/ueberdavos/fakten/gemeindeinzahlen/|url-status=dead}}</ref> <timeline> Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width: auto height:200 barincrement:45 PlotArea = top:20 left:40 bottom:20 right:35 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:14000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:2400 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:600 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width: 35 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:1680 text:"1,680" bar:1860 from:start till:1705 text:"1,705" bar:1870 from:start till:2002 text:"2,002" bar:1880 from:start till:2865 text:"2,865" bar:1888 from:start till:3891 text:"3,891" bar:1900 from:start till:8089 text:"8,089" bar:1910 from:start till:9905 text:"9,905" bar:1920 from:start till:9727 text:"9,727" bar:1930 from:start till:11164 text:"11,164" bar:1941 from:start till:9259 text:"9,259" bar:1950 from:start till:10433 text:"10,433" bar:1960 from:start till:9588 text:"9,588" bar:1970 from:start till:10238 text:"10,238" bar:1980 from:start till:10468 text:"10,468" bar:1990 from:start till:10957 text:"10,957" bar:2000 from:start till:11417 text:"11,417" bar:2010 from:start till:11237 text:"11,237" bar:2014 from:start till:11136 text:"11,136" bar:2015 from:start till:12624 text:"12,624" </timeline> ===Education=== In Davos about 74% of the population (ages 25â64) have completed either nonmandatory [[Education in Switzerland#Secondary|upper secondary education]] or additional higher education (either a university or a ''[[Fachhochschule]]'').<ref name=SFSO/> ===Economy=== Davos is a tourist community and a regional center.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/querschnittsthemen/raeumliche-analysen/raeumliche-gliederungen/analyseregionen.assetdetail.335600.html|title=Die Raumgliederungen der Schweiz 2016 |publisher= Swiss Federal Statistical Office |location=NeuchĂątel, Switzerland |language=de, fr, it, en |date=17 February 2016 |access-date= 14 December 2016}}</ref> {{as of|2014|In 2014}}, there were a total of 8,853 people employed in the municipality. Of these, a total of 203 people worked in 80 businesses in the [[Primary sector of the economy|primary economic sector]]. The [[Secondary sector of the economy|secondary sector]] employed 996 workers in 145 separate businesses. Finally, the [[Tertiary sector of the economy|tertiary sector]] provided 7,654 jobs in 926 businesses. In 2014 a total of 5,211 employees worked in 908 small companies (less than 50 employees). There were 17 mid sized businesses with 2,074 employees and 1 large business which employed 369 people.<ref>[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/kataloge-datenbanken/daten.assetdetail.331681.html Federal Statistical Office -ArbeitsstĂ€tten und BeschĂ€ftigte nach Gemeinde, Wirtschaftssektor und Grössenklasse] accessed 31 October 2016</ref> In 2014 a total of 23.5% of the population received social assistance.<ref name=SFSO2016/> In 2015 local hotels had a total of 797,348 overnight stays, of which 46.9% were international visitors.<ref>[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/kataloge-datenbanken/daten.assetdetail.252702.html Federal Statistical Office - Hotellerie: AnkĂŒnfte und LogiernĂ€chte der geöffneten Betriebe] accessed 31 October 2016</ref> ===Religion=== From the {{as of|2000|alt=2000 census}}, 5,321 residents (46.6% of the population) belonged to the [[Swiss Reformed Church]] while 3,950 residents (34.6%) are [[Roman Catholic]]. Of the rest of the population, there were 10 individuals (or about 0.09% of the population) who belong to the [[Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland|Christian Catholic]] faith, 439 individuals (3.85% of the population) who belonged to the Orthodox Church, 274 (2.40%) who belonged to another Christian church, 79 (0.69%) who were [[Islam|Muslim]], 56 (0.49%) who belonged to another faith (not listed), and eight residents (0.07%) were [[Judaism|Jewish]]. In addition, 832 residents (7.29%) belonged to no faith, were [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] or [[Atheism|atheist]], and 448 individuals (3.92%) did not answer the question.<ref name=Population>[http://www.gr.ch/DE/institutionen/verwaltung/dvs/awt/dienstleistungen/volkswirtschaftlichegrundlagen/Seiten/Bevoelkerung.aspx Graubunden Population Statistics] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827132227/http://www.gr.ch/DE/institutionen/verwaltung/dvs/awt/dienstleistungen/volkswirtschaftlichegrundlagen/Seiten/Bevoelkerung.aspx |date=27 August 2009 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 21 September 2009</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). 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