Saint-Jean is a village in the district of
Sierre
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in the
Swiss
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canton of
Valais
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. An independent
municipality
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before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring
Ayer
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,
Chandolin
Chandolin is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Grimentz, Saint Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniv ...
,
Grimentz
Grimentz is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Chandolin, Saint Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Annivi ...
,
Saint-Luc and
Vissoie
Vissoie is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.
The village became an independent municipality in 1905 when it split from the municipalities of Ayer and Grimentz. However, on 1 January 2009 it merged with neighbori ...
to form the municipality of
Anniviers
Anniviers is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It was formed through the merger of six municipalities in Val d'Anniviers: Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie. The merger be ...
.
[Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 19 July 2011
History
Saint-Jean is first mentioned in 1250 as ''de Sancto Johanne''.
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Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the village coat of arms
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is ''Gules, an Ibex rampant Argent on a Chief Or a Royal Orb Sable belted Argent.''
Demographics
Saint-Jean has a population () of 237.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008]
accessed 19 June 2010 Most of the population () speaks French (193 or 98.5%) as their first language, German
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is the second most common (1 or 0.5%) and Italian
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is the third (1 or 0.5%).[
Of the population in the village, 119 or about 60.7% were born in Saint-Jean and lived there in 2000. There were 47 or 24.0% who were born in the same canton, while 13 or 6.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 7 or 3.6% were born outside of Switzerland.][
, there were 76 people who were single and never married in the village. There were 106 married individuals, 11 widows or widowers and 3 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
There were 23 households that consist of only one person and 3 households with five or more people. , a total of 76 apartments (35.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 109 apartments (51.4%) were seasonally occupied and 27 apartments (12.7%) 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 CVP which received 56.78% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (13.81%), the FDP (12.28%) and the SP (12.15%). In the federal election, a total of 117 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 57.4%.
Economy
There were 99 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.4% of the workforce. the total number of full-time equivalent
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jobs was 63. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 9, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 43 of which 30 or (69.8%) were in manufacturing and 13 (30.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 11. In the tertiary sector; 1 was in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 54.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, .Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011
, there were 10 workers who commuted into the village and 69 workers who commuted away. The village is a net exporter of workers, with about 6.9 workers leaving the village for every one entering.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010
Religion
From the , 187 or 95.4% were Roman Catholic
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, while 1 or 0.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. There was 1 individual who was Islam
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ic. 4 (or about 2.04% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 3 individuals (or about 1.53% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Saint-Jean about 73 or (37.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 16 or (8.2%) have completed additional higher education (either University
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 16 who completed tertiary schooling, 56.3% were Swiss men, 43.8% were Swiss women.[
, there were 3 students in Saint-Jean who came from another village, while 27 residents attended schools outside the village.][
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References
External links
Official website
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Former municipalities of Valais
Villages in Switzerland