Innerthal

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Template:Infobox Swiss town Innerthal is a municipality in March District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.

History

Innerthal is first mentioned in 1259 as Wegental. Until 1888 it was known as Hinterwäggithal.[1]

Geography

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The church
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Wägitalersee in the Summer
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Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1923)

since 2006Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Innerthal has an area of Script error: No such module "convert".. Of this area, 34.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (30.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).[2]

The municipality is located on Wägitalersee, a reservoir in the upper Wägital.

Demographics

Innerthal has a population (as of Template:Swiss populations date) of Template:Swiss populations.Template:Swiss populations ref since 2007Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 2.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.[3] Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 5%. Most of the population (since 2000Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) speaks German (97.0%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.8%) and Rhaeto-romance being third ( 0.6%).[2]

since 2000Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". the gender distribution of the population was 48.5% male and 51.5% female. The age distribution, since 2008Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., in Innerthal is; 46 people or 27.5% of the population is between 0 and 19. 44 people or 26.3% are 20 to 39, and 56 people or 33.5% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 15 people or 9.0% are 65 to 74. There are 6 people or 3.6% who are 70 to 79 and no one is over 80.[3]

since 2000Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". there are 64 households, of which 13 households (or about 20.3%) contain only a single individual. 5 or about 7.8% are large households, with at least five members.[3]

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the CVP which received 54.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (28.3%), the FDP (13.8%) and the SPS (2.5%).[2]

The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Innerthal about 44.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).[2]

Innerthal has an unemployment rate of 0%. since 2005Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., there were 22 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 41 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 8 businesses in this sector.[2]

From the 2000 censusTemplate:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., 156 or 93.4% are Roman Catholic, while 8 or 4.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. There are less than 5 individuals who belong to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and less than 5 individuals did not answer the question.[3]

The historical population is given in the following table:[1]

year population
1850 302
1900 363
1930 (na
1950 210
1990 151
2000 167

Weather

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References

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  2. a b c d e Swiss Federal Statistical Office Template:Webarchive accessed 02-Sep-2009
  3. a b c d Canton Schwyz Statistics Template:Webarchive Template:In lang accessed 27 August 2009
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