the newly created Verwaltungskreis Thun. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "Azure on a Bend Argent three Roses Gules barbed and seeded proper". Demographics Uetendorf has a population () of . , 5.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Between the last two years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of -0.8%. Migration accounted for -1.4%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (5,434 or 95.3%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (44 or 0.8%) and various African languages (not further specified) are the third (43 or 0.8%). There are 41 people who speak French, 31 people who speak Italian and one person who speaks Romansh. , the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. The population was composed of 2,756 Swiss men (46.2% of the population) and 202 (3.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 2,845 Swiss women (47.7%) and 163 (2.7%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 1,426 or about 25.0% were born in Uetendorf and lived there in 2000. There were 3,000 or 52.6% who were born in the same canton, while 667 or 11.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 397 or 7.0% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 20.0% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.0% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 20.0%. , there were 2,258 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 2,878 married individuals, 293 widows or widowers and 273 individuals who are divorced. , there were 720 households that consisted of only one person and 140 households with five or more people. , a total of 2,223 apartments (93.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 108 apartments (4.5%) were seasonally occupied and 50 apartments (2.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 1.5 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.5%. In 2012, single family homes made up 58.5% of the total housing in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following chart: Economy , Uetendorf had an unemployment rate of 1.2%. , there were a total of 3,111 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 127 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 46