Until the first of January 2010 Rohr was a

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in the district of

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in the

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Aargau Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (german: Kanton Aargau; rm, Chantun Argovia; french: Canton d'Argovie; it, Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capita ...

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 ...

. At the beginning of 2010 Rohr became a suburb of

.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14 January 2010

History

Rohr is first mentioned in 1027 as ''Rore''.

Geography

Rohr has an area, , of . Of this area, 31.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 39.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 22.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (6.4%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The municipality is located in the Aarau district, and since 1 January 2010 has been part of the municipality of Aarau. It consisted of the linear village of Rohr on a terrace above the Aare river valley.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent three Bulrushes Vert fructed Sable issuant from Coupeaux of the second.''

Demographics

Rohr has a population (as of ) of . , 22.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 15.9%. Most of the population () speaks German (87.9%), with Italian being second most common ( 3.4%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 2.4%).
accessed 26-January-2010 The age distribution, , in Rohr is; 339 children or 10.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 299 teenagers or 9.2% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 496 people or 15.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 505 people or 15.5% are between 30 and 39, 506 people or 15.5% are between 40 and 49, and 459 people or 14.1% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 352 people or 10.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 183 people or 5.6% are between 70 and 79, there are 96 people or 2.9% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 28 people or 0.9% who are 90 and older.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)
accessed 20 January 2010 , there were 125 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 712 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 328 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.21 individuals. there were 385 single family homes (or 24.5% of the total) out of a total of 1,574 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (20.2%), the FDP (15.1%) and the CVP (6.9%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Rohr about 72.1% 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 ...

''). Of the school age population (), there are 225 students attending

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, there are 138 students attending

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in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following table:

Economy

, Rohr had an unemployment rate of 1.85%. , there were 16 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 273 people are employed in the

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and there are 21 businesses in this sector. 302 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 65 businesses in this sector. there were 1,484 total workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 1,295 or about 87.3% of the residents worked outside Rohr while 345 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 534 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen
accessed 21 January 2010

Religion

From the , 743 or 28.0% are

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

, while 1,309 or 49.4% 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 are 14 individuals (or about 0.53% of the population) who belong to the

Christian Catholic The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is an Old Catholic denomination in Switzerland. This denomination is part of the Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic). Recent developments In 1871 the Zürich Catholic community planned to build a chu ...

faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

References

{{Authority control Former municipalities of Aargau Aarau Populated places disestablished in 2010