Schupfart is 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 ...

Geography

Schupfart has an area, , of . Of this area, or 60.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.6%. Out of the forested land, 30.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 39.1% is used for growing crops and 16.5% is pastures, while 4.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent a Linden-leaf slipped Vert.''

Demographics

Schupfart has a population () of . , 8.2% of the population are foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 13.7%. Most of the population () speaks

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(96.5%), with

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being second most common ( 2.3%) and

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being third ( 0.6%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 28-May-2010 The age distribution, , in Schupfart is; 78 children or 10.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 91 teenagers or 12.0% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 96 people or 12.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 103 people or 13.5% are between 30 and 39, 145 people or 19.1% are between 40 and 49, and 108 people or 14.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 70 people or 9.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 36 people or 4.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 28 people or 3.7% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 6 people or 0.8% 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 20 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 116 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 121 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 262 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. there were 128 single family homes (or 40.1% of the total) out of a total of 319 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 3 empty apartments for a 0.9% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 9.4 new units per 1000 residents. In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 42.09% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (25.33%), the SP (10.82%) and the FDP (7.37%). In the federal election, a total of 226 votes were cast, and the

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was 40.7%. The historical population is given in the following table:

Heritage sites of national significance

The ''Herrain'', a formerly fortified hill, is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Economy

, Schupfart had an unemployment rate of 1.77%. , there were 72 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 28 businesses involved in this sector. 37 people are employed in the

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and there are 9 businesses in this sector. 55 people are employed in the

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, with 17 businesses in this sector. there were 347 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 281 or about 81.0% of the residents worked outside Schupfart while 41 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 107 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 Of the working population, 9.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.3% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 518 or 76.1% were

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, while 95 or 14.0% 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 12 individuals (or about 1.76% of the population) who belonged to the

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

Education

In Schupfart about 76.2% 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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''). Of the school age population (), there are 49 students attending

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in the municipality.

References

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