Hubersdorf is a
municipality
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in the district of
Lebern in the
canton of
Solothurn
Solothurn ( , ; french: Soleure ; it, Soletta ; rm, ) is a List of towns in Switzerland, town, a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality, and the Capital (political), capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the n ...
in
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 ...
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History
Hubersdorf is first mentioned in 1374 as ''Huopolstron''.
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Geography
Hubersdorf has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 30.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 12.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 26.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 30.1% is used for growing crops and 22.8% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.[
The municipality is located in the Lebern district, in a small depression near the Siggern river in the ]Jura Mountains
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Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Gules in dexter a Mullet pommed Or and in sinister a Paring Knife Sable palewise.''
Demographics
Hubersdorf has a population () of . , 6.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008]
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 3%.
accessed 1 April 2011German
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(651 or 98.0%), with French being second most common (4 or 0.6%) and Albanian
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being third (3 or 0.5%).[
, the gender distribution of the population was 50.3% male and 49.7% female. The population was made up of 323 Swiss men (46.9% of the population) and 23 (3.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 318 Swiss women (46.2%) and 24 (3.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 198 or about 29.8% were born in Hubersdorf and lived there in 2000. There were 253 or 38.1% who were born in the same canton, while 165 or 24.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 37 or 5.6% were born outside of Switzerland.][
In there were 8 live births to Swiss citizens and were 5 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 while the foreign population remained the same. There were 3 Swiss men and 1 Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men and 1 non-Swiss woman who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 6 and the non-Swiss population increased by 6 people. This represents a ]population growth rate
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of 0.0%.[
The age distribution, , in Hubersdorf is; 53 children or 8.0% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 134 teenagers or 20.2% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 42 people or 6.3% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old. 185 people or 27.9% are between 25 and 44, and 175 people or 26.4% are between 45 and 64. The senior population distribution is 61 people or 9.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 14 people or 2.1% who are over 80.
, there were 279 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 329 married individuals, 29 widows or widowers and 27 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 238 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household.[ There were 46 households that consist of only one person and 28 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 240 households that answered this question, 19.2% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 68 married couples without children, 110 married couples with children There were 11 single parents with a child or children.][
there were 153 single family homes (or 77.3% of the total) out of a total of 198 inhabited buildings. There were 25 multi-family buildings (12.6%), along with 14 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (7.1%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.0%). Of the single family homes 5 were built before 1919, while 39 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (37) were built between 1981 and 1990.][Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011
there were 248 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 92. There were 9 single room apartments and 156 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 236 apartments (95.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5 apartments (2.0%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (2.8%) were empty.[ , the construction rate of new housing units was 17.5 new units per 1000 residents.][ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.77%.][
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Politics
In the 2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the CVP which received 27.02% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (22.67%), the SVP (20.72%) and the SP (17.74%). In the federal election, a total of 252 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 49.1%.
Economy
, Hubersdorf had an unemployment rate of 1.9%. , there were 12 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 24 people were employed in the secondary sector
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and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 61 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 14 businesses in this sector.[ There were 366 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.9% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 67. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 8, of which 7 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 20 of which 5 or (25.0%) were in manufacturing and 16 (80.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 39. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 5.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 5.1% were in the information industry, 5 or 12.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 25 or 64.1% were in education. , there were 32 workers who commuted into the municipality and 314 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 9.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 12% used public transportation to get to work, and 70.2% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 309 or 46.5% were Roman Catholic
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, while 228 or 34.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 individuals (or about 0.45% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 11 individuals (or about 1.66% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 7 (or about 1.05% of the population) who were Islam
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ic. 94 (or about 14.16% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 12 individuals (or about 1.81% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Hubersdorf about 293 or (44.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 73 or (11.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 73 who completed tertiary schooling, 89.0% were Swiss men, 8.2% were Swiss women.[
During the 2010–2011 school year there were a total of 73 students in the Hubersdorf school system. The ]education system
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in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten
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. During that school year, there were 20 children in kindergarten. The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of primary school
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, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In the municipality there were 53 students in primary school. The secondary school
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program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. All the lower secondary students from Hubersdorf attend their school in a neighboring municipality.Canton of Solothurn – School statistics
accessed 13 March 2011
, there were 122 students in Hubersdorf who came from another municipality, while 36 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
External links
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Pictures and Panoramas of the community Hubersdorf at Panoramio.com
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