Stein is a

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in the district of Rheinfelden 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 capit ...

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 ...

. The town lies across the

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River from Bad Säckingen in the German state of

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. Two bridges link the two city, one vehicular (Fridolinsbrücke) and the other, the Holzbrücke

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. The Stein-Säckingen railway station is located in Stein.

Geography

Stein has an area, , of . Of this area, or 28.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 39.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 10.3% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, industrial buildings comprise approximately 8.9% of the total area;

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and

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account for 13.9%

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, 13.5%, parks, with green belts and sports fields making up 2.1%. Out of the forested land, 19.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with

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or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 19.9% is used for growing crops and 7.1% is pastures, while 1.4% 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 ''Gules a Fiddle Argent bendwise with neck downwards.''

Demographics

Stein has a population () of . , 33.6% of whom are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 18.7%. Most of the population () speaks

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(86.6%), with

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being second most common ( 3.6%) and Albanian being third ( 3.0%). The age distribution, , in Stein is; 248 children or 8.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 317 teenagers or 11.2% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 407 people or 14.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 404 people or 14.3% are between 30 and 39, 513 people or 18.2% are between 40 and 49, and 400 people or 14.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 264 people or 9.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 168 people or 5.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 94 people or 3.3% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 10 people or 0.4% who are 90 and older. the average number of residents per living room was 0.58, approximately the same as the cantonal average of 0.57 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 38.7% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a

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or a

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agreement). , there were 104 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 657 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 255 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 1,037 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. there were 330 single family homes (or 26.7% of the total) out of a total of 1,235 homes and apartments. There were a total of 7 empty apartments for a 0.6% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 17.6 new units per 1000 residents. In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 34.45% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (17.79%), the FDP (17.11%) and the CVP (16.91%). In the federal election, a total of 600 votes were cast, with a

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of 37.8%. The historical population is given in the following table:

Heritage sites of national significance

The '' Säckingerbrücke'' (wooden bridge) at Schaffhauserstrasse is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Economy

, Stein's unemployment rate was 3.77%. , there were 11 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 1,611 people are employed in the

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which features 22 businesses. 597 people are employed in the

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, with 89 businesses in this sector. there were 1,251 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 855 or about 68.3% of the residents worked outside Stein while 1,446 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 1,842 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality. Of the working population, 18.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 46.2% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 1,100 or 45.6% were

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, while 688 or 28.5% 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 around 30 individuals (or about 1.24% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.

Education

The entire Swiss population is generally well-educated. In Stein about 65.4% 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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''). Of the school age population (), there are 200 students attending

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, there are 81 students attending secondary school in the municipality.

References

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