Staufen is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of

Lenzburg Lenzburg is a town in the central region of the Swiss canton Aargau and is the capital of the Lenzburg District. The town, founded in the Middle Ages, lies in the Seetal valley, about 3 kilometres south of the Aare river. Lenzburg and the neigh ...

in the canton of

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 ...

in Switzerland.

Geography

Staufen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 40.1 % is used for agricultural purposes, while or 31.7 % is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 26.6 % is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.2 % of the total area while housing and buildings made up 14.8 % and transportation infrastructure made up 4.5 %. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 4.2 % of the area. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 32.5 % is used for growing crops and 5.6 % is pastures, while 2.0 % is used for orchards or vine crops.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules three Cups Or.''

Demographics

Staufen has a population () of . , 14.7 % 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 12.7 %. Most of the population () speaks German (89.4 %), with Italian being second most common (4.9 %) and Portuguese being third (1.2 %).
accessed 18 May 2010 The age distribution, , in Staufen is: 268 children or 10.4 % of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 261 teenagers or 10.1 % are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 309 people or 11.9 % of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 324 people or 12.5 % are between 30 and 39, 443 people or 17.1 % are between 40 and 49, and 367 people or 14.2 % are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 286 people or 11.1 % of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 205 people or 7.9 % are between 70 and 79, there are 106 people or 4.1 % who are between 80 and 89, and there are 17 people or 0.7 % 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 71 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 423 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 402 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 932 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. there were 526 single-family homes (or 45.5 % of the total) out of a total of 1,155 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 12 empty apartments for a 1.0 % vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 8.6 new units per 1000 residents. In the

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the most popular party was the SVP, which received 34.8 % of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (17.6 %), the FDP (14.1 %) and the CVP (10.7 %). The historical population is given in the following table:

Heritage sites of national significance

The

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church,

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, sexton's barn and adjoining buildings are listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Economy

, Staufen had an unemployment rate of 1.85 %. , there were 34 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 143 people are employed in the

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and there are 19 businesses in this sector. 167 people are 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 34 businesses in this sector. there were 1,163 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 980 or about 84.3 % of the residents worked outside Staufen while 276 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 459 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality. Of the working population, 18.1 % used public transportation to get to work, and 43.5 % used a private car.

Religion

From the , 602 or 27.2 % were

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, while 1,214 or 54.9 % 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 was 1 individual who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

Education

In Staufen about 71 % 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 173 students attending

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, there are 69 students attending

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in the municipality.Swiss Federal Statistical Office, list of libraries
accessed 14 May 2010

References

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