Lindau has a population (as of ) of . , 18.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51% male and 49% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 33%. Most of the population () speaks German (85.6%), with Italian being second most common ( 3.7%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 3.0%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the
SVP which received 40% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the
SPS (14.5%), the
FDP (11.7%) and the
CSP (11.1%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 9.4%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Lindau about 76.7% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory
upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a
Fachhochschule). There are 1545 households in Lindau. 47.1% of the working population were employed full-time, and 52.9% were employed part-time. there were 1240
Catholics and 2159
Protestants in Lindau. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 50.4% were some type of Protestant, with 45.9% belonging to the
Swiss Reformed Church and 4.4% belonging to other Protestant churches. 25.3% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 11.2% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.9% did not give a religion, and 9.7% were atheist or agnostic. == Transport ==