Leimiswil
Leimiswil is a former municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011 Kleindietwil and Leimiswil were merged with the municipality of Madiswil.[1]
Geography
Leimiswil has an area, Template:As of, of Template:Convert. Of this area, Template:Convert or 75.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while Template:Convert or 18.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, Template:Convert or 5.4% is settled (buildings or roads).[2]
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. 17.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 37.8% is used for growing crops and 35.5% is pastures, while 2.2% is used for orchards or vine crops.[2]
Demographics
Leimiswil has a population (as of 31 December 2010) of 398.[3] Template:As of, 1.7% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -9.1%. Most of the population (Template:As of) speaks German (95.9%), with Albanian being second most common ( 2.0%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.9%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 54.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (12.5%), the Small right-wing parties (10.4%) and the SPS (10.1%).
The age distribution of the population (Template:As of) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59% and the seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.8%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Leimiswil about 69.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule).
Leimiswil has an unemployment rate of 0.8%. Template:As of, there were 97 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 36 businesses involved in this sector. 89 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 8 businesses in this sector. 50 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 12 businesses in this sector.[4]
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- ↑ Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz Template:In lang accessed 4 April 2011
- ↑ a b Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data Template:In lang accessed 25 March 2010
- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB Template:Webarchive, online database – Datenwürfel für Thema 01.2 - Bevölkerungsstand und -bewegung Template:In lang accessed 29 September
- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office Template:Webarchive accessed 29-May-2009