Schwarzenberg 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

Lucerne Lucerne ( , ; High Alemannic German, High Alemannic: ''Lozärn'') or Luzern ()Other languages: gsw, Lozärn, label=Lucerne German; it, Lucerna ; rm, Lucerna . is a city in central Switzerland, in the Languages of Switzerland, German-speaking po ...

in the canton of

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

Eigenthal kaj Schwarzenberg viditaj de Pilato 261

Schwarzenberg has an area of . Of this area, 36.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 53.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (6.9%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). , 53.79% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 36.34% is used for farming or pastures, while 0.33% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 1.45% is covered with buildings, 0.13% is industrial, 0.1% is classed as special developments, 0.05% is parks or greenbelts and 0.94% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.87% is unproductive flowing water (rivers) and 5.99% is other unproductive land.

Demographics

Schwarzenberg has a population () of 1,602, of which 6.1% are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 11.4%. Most of the population () speaks German (97.6%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 0.7%) and French being third ( 0.3%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the FDP which received 33.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (30.6%), the CVP (23.4%) and the

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(5.1%). The age distribution in Schwarzenberg is; 438 people or 27% of the population is 0–19 years old. 383 people or 23.6% are 20–39 years old, and 615 people or 37.8% are 40–64 years old. The senior population distribution is 147 people or 9% are 65–79 years old, 38 or 2.3% are 80–89 years old and 4 people or 0.2% of the population are 90+ years old.LUSTAT Lucerne Cantonal Statistics
accessed 12 August 2009 In Schwarzenberg about 66.4% 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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''). there are 511 households, of which 106 households (or about 20.7%) contain only a single individual. 87 or about 17.% are large households, with at least five members. there were 378 inhabited buildings in the municipality, of which 284 were built only as housing, and 94 were

mixed use Mixed-use is a kind of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning type that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to some ...

buildings. There were 219 single family homes, 45 double family homes, and 20 multi-family homes in the municipality. Most homes were either two (171) or three (87) story structures. There were only 18 single story buildings and 8 four or more story buildings. Schwarzenberg has an unemployment rate of 0.62%. , there were 167 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 67 businesses involved in this sector. 78 people are employed in the

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and there are 16 businesses in this sector. 145 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 27 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 20-Aug-2009 52.9% of the population of the municipality were employed in some capacity. At the same time, females made up 40.8% of the workforce. the religious membership of Schwarzenberg was; 1,198 (80.5%) were Roman Catholic, and 151 (10.1%) were Protestant, with an additional 20 (1.34%) that were of some other Christian faith. There are 6 individuals (0.4% of the population) who are Muslim. Of the rest; there were 2 (0.13%) individuals who belong to another religion, 75 (5.04%) who do not belong to any organized religion, 37 (2.48%) who did not answer the question.

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{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Lucerne