Untersiggenthal is a

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in the district of

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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 ...

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 ...

, located in the

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(German: ''Limmattal'').

Geography

Untersiggenthal has an area, , of . Of this area, 33.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 44.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 18.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (3.8%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules two Keys in saltire Argent.''

Demographics

Untersiggenthal has a population (as of ) of . , 26.1% 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 10.9%. Most of the population () speaks German (82.9%), with Italian being second most common ( 3.6%) and Albanian being third ( 2.8%).
accessed 12-February-2010 The age distribution, , in Untersiggenthal is; 685 children or 10.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 766 teenagers or 11.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 842 people or 13.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 856 people or 13.3% are between 30 and 39, 1,056 people or 16.4% are between 40 and 49, and 888 people or 13.8% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 746 people or 11.6% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 371 people or 5.8% are between 70 and 79, there are 183 people or 2.8% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 31 people or 0.5% 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 240 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 1,226 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 864 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.45 individuals. there were 1,048 single family homes (or 38.2% of the total) out of a total of 2,740 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 58 empty apartments for a 2.1% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 4.9 new units per 1000 residents. In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 35% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (19.2%), the CVP (15.7%) and the FDP (13.7%). In Untersiggenthal about 74.9% 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 448 students attending

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, there are 211 students attending secondary school in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following table:

Heritage sites of national significance

The ruined Freudenau castle and the

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settlement at ''Heidenküche'' are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance.Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance
21.11.2008 version, accessed 12-Feb-2010

Economy

, Untersiggenthal had an unemployment rate of 2.79%. , there were 67 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 17 businesses involved in this sector. 399 people are employed in the

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and there are 40 businesses in this sector. 748 people are employed in the

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, with 103 businesses in this sector. there were 3,210 total workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 2,713 or about 84.5% of the residents worked outside Untersiggenthal while 483 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 980 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, 24.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 46.9% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 2,919 or 47.6% are

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, while 1,727 or 28.2% 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 5 individuals (or about 0.08% of the population) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

References

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