[ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.39%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Heritage sites of national significance
The Former Monastery of St. Urban, Catholic
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Parish Church
A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in community activities, ...
of St. Vinzenz with cemetery chapel and the rectory
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Function
A clergy house is typically ow ...
with tithe barn
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are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 40.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (27.3%), the FDP (14%) and the SPS
SPS may refer to:
Law and government
* Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the WTO
* NATO Science for Peace and Security
* Single Payment Scheme, an EU agricultural subsidy
* The Standard Procurement System, fo ...
(6.2%). In the federal election, a total of 806 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 49.9%.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2011 Election]
accessed 8 May 2012
Economy
, Pfaffnau had an unemployment rate of 1.61%. , there were a total of 1,319 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 204 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 74 businesses involved in this sector. 171 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 constructi ...
and there were 21 businesses in this sector. 944 people were employed in 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 ...
, with 59 businesses in this sector.[
there were a total of 1,039 ]full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit that indicates the workload of an employee, employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often used to me ...
jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 124, of which 122 were in agriculture and 2 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 160 of which 85 or (53.1%) were in manufacturing and 75 (46.9%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 755. In the tertiary sector; 131 or 17.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 19 or 2.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 9 or 1.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 0.7% were in the information industry, 6 or 0.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 18 or 2.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 28 or 3.7% were in education and 519 or 68.7% were in health care.
, there were 597 workers who commuted into the municipality and 590 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.0 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 8.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 53.1% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 1,691 or 70.8% were Roman Catholic
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*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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, while 362 or 15.1% 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 were 93 members of an Orthodox church (or about 3.89% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 34 individuals (or about 1.42% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Jewish
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, and 61 (or about 2.55% of the population) who were Islam
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ic. There were 11 individuals who were Hindu
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. 87 (or about 3.64% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 65 individuals (or about 2.72% of the population) did not answer the question.[
File:Pfaffnau-Pfarrhaus-2.jpg, Pfaffnau, rectory with tithe barn
File:Pfaffnau-Pfarrhaus-K.jpg, Pfaffnau, rectory and Chapel of St. Antonius
File:Pfaffnau-Pfarrhaus-Kirche.jpg, Pfaffnau, Catholic Parish Church of St. Vinzenz
File:Pfaffnau-Kirche-2.jpg, Pfaffnau, Parish Church
File:Closter S. Vrban (Merian).jpg, St. Urban's Abbey 1654
File:Pfaffnau-St-Urban-BF.jpg, Former Monastery of St. Urban
]
Education
In Pfaffnau about 797 or (33.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 214 or (9.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 214 who completed tertiary schooling, 71.5% were Swiss men, 19.6% were Swiss women, 6.5% were non-Swiss men and 2.3% were non-Swiss women.[
, there were 45 students in Pfaffnau who came from another municipality, while 105 residents attended schools outside the municipality.][
Pfaffnau is home to the ''Schul- und Gemeindebibliothek Pfaffnau'' (municipal library of Pfaffnau). The library has () 3,850 books or other media, and loaned out 4,394 items in the same year. It was open a total of 195 days with average of 11.5 hours per week during that year.Swiss Federal Statistical Office, list of libraries]
accessed 14 May 2010
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