Wittnau is a

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in the district of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

Geography

Wittnau has an area, , of . Of this area, or 39.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 53.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% 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 3.3%. Out of the forested land, 52.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 21.6% is used for growing crops and 13.4% is pastures, while 4.3% 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 ''Azure two Eagles in pale displayed Argent langued beaked and membered Gules.''

Demographics

Wittnau has a population () of , 8.7% 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 2.4%. Most of the population () speaks German (92.8%), with Albanian being second most common ( 2.7%) and Italian being third ( 1.1%).
accessed 10-May-2010 The age distribution, , in Wittnau is; 99 children or 8.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 191 teenagers or 17.0% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 122 people or 10.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 137 people or 12.2% are between 30 and 39, 230 people or 20.5% are between 40 and 49, and 158 people or 14.1% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 94 people or 8.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 48 people or 4.3% are between 70 and 79, there are 35 people or 3.1% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 9 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 33 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 171 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 202 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. , there were 429 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. there were 216 single family homes (or 45.4% of the total) out of a total of 476 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 1 empty apartments for a 0.2% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.6 new units per 1000 residents. In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 37.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (18.9%), the SP (15.6%) and the FDP (9.6%). In Wittnau about 76.7% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the school age population (), there are 94 students attending

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in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following table:

Heritage sites of national significance

The Alt Homberg Castle ruin and the ''Wittnauer Horn'' (site of a prehistoric hill settlement, a

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settlement and an

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fortification) are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance. The entire village of Wittnau is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

Economy

, Wittnau had an unemployment rate of 1.06%. , there were 52 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 18 businesses involved in this sector. 106 people are employed in the

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and there are 16 businesses in this sector. 63 people are employed in the

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, with 22 businesses in this sector. there were 566 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 436 or about 77.0% of the residents worked outside Wittnau while 168 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 298 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, 17.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 54.8% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 715 or 63.2% were

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, while 205 or 18.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 4 individuals (or about 0.35% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

References

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