Le Cerneux-Péquignot is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
canton of
Neuchâtel
, neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier
, twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...
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
Le Cerneux-Péquignot is first mentioned in the 13th century in connection with the Pequignot of Montlebon family.
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Geography
Le Cerneux-Péquignot has an area, , of . Of this area, or 54.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 40.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.5% is unproductive land.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 36.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.1% is used for growing crops and 35.2% is pastures and 19.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.[
The municipality was located in the district of ]Le Locle
Le Locle (; german: Luggli) is a Communes of Switzerland, municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
It is situated in the Jura Mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
It is the third smallest city in Switz ...
, until the district level was eliminated on 1 January 2018. It is at an elevation of . It consists of the village of Le Cerneux-Péquignot, near the French border, along with a number of scattered hamlets
A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...
and farm houses.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Between four, one in dexter and three in sinister, Pine trees Vert, issuant from Base of the same a Plough Sable.''
Demographics
Le Cerneux-Péquignot has a population () of . , 2.9% 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 (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 2.5%. It has changed at a rate of -0.9% due to migration and at a rate of 5% due to births and deaths.
accessed 21-October-2011German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ger ...
is the second most common (8 or 2.6%) and Portuguese
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* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
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*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
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is the third (3 or 1.0%).[
, the population was 53.1% male and 46.9% female. The population was made up of 167 Swiss men (51.5% of the population) and 5 (1.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 145 Swiss women (44.8%) and 7 (2.2%) non-Swiss women.][Canton of Neuchatel Statistics](_blank)
, ''République et canton de Neuchâtel - Recensement annuel de la population'' accessed 13 October 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 141 or about 45.0% were born in Le Cerneux-Péquignot and lived there in 2000. There were 99 or 31.6% who were born in the same canton, while 42 or 13.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 20 or 6.4% were born outside of Switzerland.[
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15%.][
, there were 120 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 170 married individuals, 17 widows or widowers and 6 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 115 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.[ There were 21 households that consist of only one person and 14 households with five or more people. , a total of 109 apartments (86.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 14 apartments (11.1%) were seasonally occupied and 3 apartments (2.4%) were empty.][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011
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 SVP which received 27.35% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (24.22%), the Green Party
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Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...
(15.65%) and the SP (11.56%). In the federal election, a total of 155 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 62.5%.
Economy
, Le Cerneux-Péquignot had an unemployment rate of 1.9%. , there were 48 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 20 businesses involved in this sector. 28 people were employed in 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 construction. ...
and there were 6 businesses in this sector. 24 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 10 businesses in this sector.[ There were 152 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.1% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 80. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 36, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 26, all of which were in manufacturing. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 18. In the tertiary sector; 4 or 22.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 22.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 2 or 11.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 3 or 16.7% were in education.
, there were 24 workers who commuted into the municipality and 70 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.9 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 29.2% of the workforce coming into Le Cerneux-Péquignot are coming from outside Switzerland.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 44.1% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 171 or 54.6% were Roman Catholic
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*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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, while 86 or 27.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...
. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church and 1 individual who was Islam
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ic. 40 (or about 12.78% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 14 individuals (or about 4.47% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Le Cerneux-Péquignot about 115 or (36.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 21 or (6.7%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 21 who completed tertiary schooling, 76.2% were Swiss men, 19.0% were Swiss women.[
In the canton of Neuchâtel most municipalities provide two years of non-mandatory ]kindergarten
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, followed by five years of mandatory primary education. The next four years of mandatory secondary education is provided at thirteen larger secondary schools, which many students travel out of their home municipality to attend. During the 2010-11 school year, there were 0.5 kindergarten classes with a total of 6 students in Le Cerneux-Péquignot. In the same year, there were 1.5 primary classes with a total of 22 students.Statistical Department of the Canton of Neuchâtel
Mémento de l'année scolaire 2010/2011 accessed 17 October 2011
, there was one student in Le Cerneux-Péquignot who came from another municipality, while 31 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
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Municipalities of the canton of Neuchâtel