Roggliswil is a

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in the district of

Willisau Willisau is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the Lucerne canton of Switzerland. It was formed on 1 January 2006 from the municipalities of Willisau Land (W. Country) and Willisau Stadt (W. Town).canton of

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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 ...

Geography

Roggliswil has an area, , of . Of this area, 66% is used for agricultural purposes, while 27.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive rivers. , 27.49% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 61.09% is used for farming or pastures, while 4.98% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 2.89% is covered with buildings, 0.32% is industrial, 0.16% is classed as special developments, and 2.73% is transportation infrastructure.

Demographics

Roggliswil has a population (as of ) of . , 16 or about 2.5% are not Swiss citizens.LUSTAT-Canton Lucerne Statistical Office
accessed 25 August 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -1.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (96.3%), with Albanian being second most common ( 2.0%) and French being third ( 0.6%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the CVP which received 35.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (31.6%), the SVP (18.6%) and the

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(5.3%). The age distribution, , in Roggliswil is; 175 people or 27.3% of the population is 0–19 years old. 151 people or 23.6% are 20–39 years old, and 199 people or 31.1% are 40–64 years old. The senior population distribution is 81 people or 12.7% are 65–79 years old, 29 or 4.5% are 80–89 years old and 5 people or 0.8% of the population are 90+ years old.LUSTAT Lucerne Cantonal Statistics
accessed 12 August 2009 In Roggliswil about 66.3% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). there are 214 households, of which 43 households (or about 20.1%) contain only a single individual. 47 or about 22.0% are large households, with at least five members. there were 151 inhabited buildings in the municipality, of which 82 were built only as housing, and 69 were

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buildings. There were 60 single family homes, 13 double family homes, and 9 multi-family homes in the municipality. Most homes were either two (57) or three (10) story structures. There were only 10 single story buildings and 5 four or more story buildings. Roggliswil has an unemployment rate of 0.37%. , there were 104 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 36 businesses involved in this sector. 81 people are employed in the

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and there are 11 businesses in this sector. 74 people are employed in the

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, with 19 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 26-Aug-2009 44.9% of the population of the municipality were employed in some capacity. At the same time, females made up 37.8% of the workforce. the religious membership of Roggliswil was; 538 (83.%) were Roman Catholic, and 55 (8.5%) were Protestant, with an additional 2 (0.31%) that were of some other Christian faith. There are 14 individuals (2.16% of the population) who are Muslim. Of the rest; there were 17 (2.62%) who do not belong to any organized religion, 22 (3.4%) who did not answer the question.

Notable people

Mathias Frank Mathias Frank (born 9 December 1986) is a Switzerland, Swiss former road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . He is considered as a strong climber, having finished 8th overall in the 2015 Tour de France, and winning a breakaway stage i ...

(born 9 December 1986) is a Swiss road bicycle racer for

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Team

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References

External links

Village website
{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Lucerne