Courtételle
Courtételle (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
History
Courtételle is first mentioned in 1178 as Curtetele.[1]
Geography
Courtételle has an area of Template:Swiss area.Template:Swiss area data Of this area, Script error: No such module "convert". or 55.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while Script error: No such module "convert". or 35.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, Script error: No such module "convert". or 8.2% is settled (buildings or roads), Script error: No such module "convert". or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and Script error: No such module "convert". or 0.1% is unproductive land.[2]
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 32.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 31.8% is used for growing crops and 14.4% is pastures and 8.5% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.[2]
The municipality is located in the Delémont district, above Delémont on the right bank of the Sorne river. It consists of the village of Courtételle and a number of scattered hamlets and farm houses.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, Coupeaux of Six Vert bordered Or.[3]
Demographics
Courtételle has a population (since Template:Swiss populations YM[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) of Template:Swiss populations.Template:Swiss populations ref since 2008[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 13.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[4] Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 7%. Migration accounted for 1.2%, while births and deaths accounted for 3.9%.[5]
Most of the population (since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) speaks French (1,999 or 91.7%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (57 or 2.6%) and German is the third (46 or 2.1%).[6]
since 2008[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 995 Swiss men (42.3% of the population) and 164 (7.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,052 Swiss women (44.7%) and 142 (6.0%) non-Swiss women.[7] Of the population in the municipality, 859 or about 39.4% were born in Courtételle and lived there in 2000. There were 748 or 34.3% who were born in the same canton, while 264 or 12.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 272 or 12.5% were born outside of Switzerland.[6]
since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13%.[5]
since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 924 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,049 married individuals, 111 widows or widowers and 96 individuals who are divorced.[6]
since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 859 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.[5] There were 238 households that consist of only one person and 73 households with five or more people. In 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., a total of 845 apartments (92.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 37 apartments (4.1%) were seasonally occupied and 29 apartments (3.2%) were empty.[8] since 2009[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the construction rate of new housing units was 0.4 new units per 1000 residents.[5] The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., was 1.08%.[5]
The historical population is given in the following chart:[1][9] <timeline> Colors=
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 43.76% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (22.56%), the SVP (13.05%) and the CSP (10.39%). In the federal election, a total of 634 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 40.8%.[10]
Economy
since 2010[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., Courtételle had an unemployment rate of 5.8%. since 2008[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 46 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 20 businesses involved in this sector. 339 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 26 businesses in this sector. 287 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 55 businesses in this sector.[5] There were 1,059 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.3% of the workforce.
In 2008[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 582. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 33, of which 30 were in agriculture and 3 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 329 of which 262 or (79.6%) were in manufacturing and 67 (20.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 220. In the tertiary sector; 64 or 29.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 4.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 12 or 5.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.9% were in the information industry, 6 or 2.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 6 or 2.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 65 or 29.5% were in education and 18 or 8.2% were in health care.[11]
In 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 440 workers who commuted into the municipality and 733 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 12.3% of the workforce coming into Courtételle are coming from outside Switzerland.[12] Of the working population, 11.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.1% used a private car.[5]
Religion
From the 2000 census[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 1,736 or 79.6% were Roman Catholic, while 188 or 8.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church, and there were 63 individuals (or about 2.89% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 52 (or about 2.39% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist and 4 individuals who belonged to another church. 110 (or about 5.05% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 56 individuals (or about 2.57% of the population) did not answer the question.[6]
Transport
Courtételle sits on the Delémont–Delle line and is served by trains at Courtételle railway station.
Education
In Courtételle about 818 or (37.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 166 or (7.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 166 who completed tertiary schooling, 65.1% were Swiss men, 21.7% were Swiss women, 10.2% were non-Swiss men and 3.0% were non-Swiss women.[6]
The Canton of Jura school system provides two year of non-obligatory Kindergarten, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school followed by some form of Tertiary school or they may enter an apprenticeship.[13]
During the 2009-10 school year, there were no students attending school in Courtételle. since 2000[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 28 students in Courtételle who came from another municipality, while 150 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[12]
References
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- ↑ a b Template:HDS
- ↑ a b Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data Template:In lang accessed 25 March 2010
- ↑ Flags of the World.com accessed 21-December-2011
- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008 Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 19 June 2010
- ↑ a b c d e f g Swiss Federal Statistical Office Template:Webarchive accessed 21-December-2011
- ↑ a b c d e STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000 Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 2 February 2011
- ↑ Canton Jura Statistics- Population résidante permanente au 1er janvier 2010, canton du Jura et communes Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 2 March 2011
- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 28 January 2011
- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach Region, 1850-2000 Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 29 January 2011
- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Nationalratswahlen 2007: Stärke der Parteien und Wahlbeteiligung, nach Gemeinden/Bezirk/Canton Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 28 May 2010
- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3 Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 28 January 2011
- ↑ a b Swiss Federal Statistical Office - StatwebScript error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:In lang accessed 24 June 2010
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