Buochs is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the canton of

Nidwalden Nidwalden, also Nidwald (german: Kanton Nidwalden, ; rm, Chantun Sutsilvania; french: Canton de Nidwald; it, Canton Nidvaldo) is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven municipalities and the seat of the ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

History

Buochs is first mentioned in 1124 as ''Boches''. In 1184, it was mentioned as ''Buoches'', then in 1210 as ''Buches'', and in 1229 as ''Buchs''.

Geography

Buochs has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of . Of this area, about 46.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 33.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 18.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and 1.7% is unproductive land. In the 2004/09 survey a total of or about 9.7% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of over the 1981 amount. Of the agricultural land, is used for orchards and vineyards, is fields and grasslands and consists of alpine grazing areas. Since 1981 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by . Over the same time period the amount of forested land has decreased by . Rivers and lakes cover in the municipality.Regionalporträts 2017: Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 18 May 2017 The municipality is located along the roads between

Ennetbürgen Ennetbürgen is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland. History Aerial view (1956) Ennetbürgen is first mentioned by 1190 as ''Burgin''. In 1799 it became ''Enet-Bürgen'' and in 1836 ''Ennerbürgen''. Since 1850 the official ...

Beckenried Beckenried is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland. History The first settlers in what would become Beckried were from Alamanni tribes that moved into the area over 2000 years ago.

and

Stans Stans () is the capital of the canton of Nidwalden (Nidwald) in Switzerland. The official language of Stans is German (spoken there in the variety of Swiss Standard German), but the main language is the local variant of Alemannic Swiss German. ...

. It is on the western side of

Lake Lucerne __NOTOC__ Lake Lucerne (german: Vierwaldstättersee, literally "Lake of the four forested settlements" (in English usually translated as ''forest cantons''), french: lac des Quatre-Cantons, it, lago dei Quattro Cantoni) is a lake in central ...

between the

Engelberger Aa Engelberger Aa (or ''Engelbergeraa'') is a river in Switzerland. It rises west of Surenenpass in the Canton of Uri, flows through the valley of Engelberg ( Obwalden) and Nidwalden. At Buochs, it empties into Lake Lucerne and is thus a tribut ...

and the Buochserhorn mountain. It consists of the former

linear village Linearity is the property of a mathematical relationship (''function'') that can be graphically represented as a straight line. Linearity is closely related to '' proportionality''. Examples in physics include rectilinear motion, the linear r ...

of Buochs.

Demographics

Buochs has a population () of . , 15.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 5 years (2010-2015) the population has changed at a rate of 2.16%. The

birth rate The birth rate for a given period is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population divided by the length of the period in years. The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registration system for births; populati ...

in the municipality, in 2015, was 11.6, while the

death rate Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of de ...

was 6.1 per thousand residents. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 19.5% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) are 63.4% of the population and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.0%. In 2015 there were 2,405 single residents, 2,465 people who were married or in a civil partnership, 217 widows or widowers and 346 divorced residents. In 2015 there were 2,244 private households in Buochs with an average household size of 2.39 persons. In 2015 about 28.6% of all buildings in the municipality were single family homes, which is less than the percentage in the canton (35.5%) and much less than the percentage nationally (57.4%). Of the 742 inhabited buildings in the municipality, in 2000, about 29.5% were single family homes and 50.3% were multiple family buildings. Additionally, about 18.2% of the buildings were built before 1919, while 14.7% were built between 1991 and 2000.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Thema 09 - Bau- und Wohnungswesen
accessed 5 May 2016 In 2014 the rate of construction of new housing units per 1000 residents was 16.67. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.21%. Most of the population () speaks German (90.9%), with Italian being second most common (1.8%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (1.7%).
accessed 04-Sep-2009 the gender distribution of the population was 50.8% male and 49.2% female. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width: auto height:200 barincrement:45 PlotArea = top:20 left:40 bottom:20 right:35 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:6000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:1200 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:300 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width: 35 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1743 from:start till:850 text:"c_850" bar:1850 from:start till:1284 text:"1,284" bar:1860 from:start till:1432 text:"1,432" bar:1870 from:start till:1515 text:"1,515" bar:1880 from:start till:1424 text:"1,424" bar:1888 from:start till:1464 text:"1,464" bar:1900 from:start till:1638 text:"1,638" bar:1910 from:start till:1591 text:"1,591" bar:1920 from:start till:1549 text:"1,549" bar:1930 from:start till:1739 text:"1,739" bar:1941 from:start till:2026 text:"2,026" bar:1950 from:start till:2355 text:"2,355" bar:1960 from:start till:2733 text:"2,733" bar:1970 from:start till:3232 text:"3,232" bar:1980 from:start till:3742 text:"3,742" bar:1990 from:start till:4295 text:"4,295" bar:2000 from:start till:4856 text:"4,856" bar:2010 from:start till:5316 text:"5,316" bar:2015 from:start till:5433 text:"5,433"

Sights

The main sights of Buochs are the church ''St. Martin'', the ''Loreto'' chapel in ''Ennerberg'', a monument of

Johann Melchior Wyrsch Johann Melchior Wyrsch (August 21, 1732 – September 9, 1798) was a Swiss painter of the 18th century. Life Johann Melchior Wyrsch was born on August 21, 1732, in Buochs, Unterwalden. He was the son of Balthazar Francis Xavier, Councillor, ...

, and the quay. The urban village of Buochs is part of the

Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites The Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS) is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage. Sites of national importance Types The types are based on t ...

Politics

In the 2015 federal election the only major party which ran a candidate was the SVP which received 83.8% of the vote. In the federal election, a total of 2,242 votes were cast, and the

voter turnout In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This can be the percentage of registered voters, eligible voters, or all voting-age people. According to Stanford Unive ...

was 57.3%. In the 2011 election the SVP received 43.8%, followed by the FDP with 38.0% and the

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with 18.2%. In the 2007 federal election, the most popular party was the FDP which received 89.9% of the vote. Most of the rest of the votes went to local small right-wing parties (9.4%).

Education

In Buochs about 73% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''

Fachhochschule A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...

'').

Economy

Buochs is classified as a suburban community. , there were a total of 1,971 people employed in the municipality. Of these, a total of 130 people worked in 44 businesses in the primary economic sector. The

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...

employed 599 workers in 81 separate businesses, of which there were 12 small businesses with a total of 336 employees and larger business with a total of 60 employees. Finally, the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...

provided 1,242 jobs in 240 businesses, of which three mid sized businesses employed a total of 246 employees. In 2015 a total of 16.7% of the population received social assistance. In 2011 the unemployment rate in the municipality was 1%. In 2015 local hotels had a total of 35,351 overnight stays, of which 90.8% were international visitors. In 2015 the average cantonal, municipal and church tax rate in the municipality for a couple with two children making was 3.3% while the rate for a single person making was 11.6%, both of which are close to the average for the canton. The canton has a slightly lower than average tax rate for those making and one of the lowest for those making . In 2013 the average income in the municipality per tax payer was and the per person average was , which is less than the cantonal average of and respectively It is also less than the national per tax payer average of and the per person average of .

Sports

The village is home to the football club

SC Buochs SC Buochs is a Swiss football club, founded in 1934 (officially). The club colours are blue and white derived from the town Buochs's coat of arms. Their home ground is Stadion Seefeld, which has a proclaimed capacity of 5,000 (1,000 seats, 4,00 ...

, who play in the 2. Liga Interregional. From 15 to 19 July 2009, the '' ICF Junior Wildwater Worldchampionships'' took place. It was mainly organized by members of the canoeclub of Nidwalden and the canoeclub of Obwalden. The races were on the

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of Nidwalden Populated places on Lake Lucerne