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The district of Östlich Raron ( fr. ''District de Rarogne oriental'') is an administrative district in the
canton of Valais Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion, Switzer ...
,
Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. The districts of Östlich Raron and Westlich Raron share a single Community Identification Number of SFOS number (2309). The district of Östlich Raron has a population of , while the Raron District has a population of (as of ).


Municipalities

It includes the following municipalities:


Coat of arms

The
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of the district
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is ''Gules a vine eradicated Vert rooted Maroon and fructed Or.''


Demographics

Raron has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
(9,979 or 96.1%) as their first language,
Albanian Albanian may refer to: *Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular: **Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans **Albanian language **Albanian culture **Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...
is the second most common (89 or 0.9%) and
French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...
is the third (88 or 0.8%). There are 45 people who speak
Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
and 2 people who speak Romansh. Of the population in the entire district 5,957 or about 57.4% were born in Raron and lived there in 2000. There were 2,694 or 26.0% who were born in the same canton, while 858 or 8.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 614 or 5.9% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 4,317 people who were single and never married in the district. There were 5,217 married individuals, 590 widows or widowers and 256 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
There were 1,000 households that consist of only one person and 326 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 4,035 households that answered this question, 24.8% were households made up of just one person and there were 75 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 1,020 married couples without children, 1,537 married couples with children. There were 178 single parents with a child or children. There were 91 households that were made up of unrelated people and 134 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011
The historical population for the entire district is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:11000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:2000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:400 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:4786 text:"4,786" bar:1860 from:start till:5389 text:"5,389" bar:1870 from:start till:5483 text:"5,483" bar:1880 from:start till:5838 text:"5,838" bar:1888 from:start till:5947 text:"5,947" bar:1900 from:start till:6641 text:"6,641" bar:1910 from:start till:10305 text:"10,305" bar:1920 from:start till:6911 text:"6,911" bar:1930 from:start till:7109 text:"7,109" bar:1941 from:start till:8015 text:"8,015" bar:1950 from:start till:8232 text:"8,232" bar:1960 from:start till:8414 text:"8,414" bar:1970 from:start till:9025 text:"9,025" bar:1980 from:start till:9216 text:"9,216" bar:1990 from:start till:9656 text:"9,656" bar:2000 from:start till:10380 text:"10,380"


Mergers and name changes

On 1 November 2003 the former municipalities of Goppisberg, Greich and Ried-Mörel merged to form the new municipality of Riederalp. On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Filet and Mörel merged to form the new municipality of Mörel-Filet, and the former municipalities of Steg and Hohtenn merged to form the new municipality of Steg-Hohtenn.
accessed 4 April 2011
On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Betten and Martisberg merged into the municipality of Bettmeralp.


Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 68.84% of the vote in the entire district. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (14.71%), the SP (10.53%) and the FDP (3.9%). In the federal election, a total of 5,316 votes were cast, and the
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was 63.4%. In the 2009 Conseil d'État/Staatsrat election a total of 1,318 votes were cast in Östlich Raron, of which 112 or about 8.5% were invalid. The voter participation was 59.1%, which is similar to the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 1,354 votes were cast in Östlich Raron, of which 51 or about 3.8% were invalid. The voter participation was 60.0%, which is similar to the cantonal average of 59.88%.Ständeratswahl 2007
accessed 24 August 2011


Religion

From the , in the entire district, 9,288 or 89.5% were
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
, while 391 or 3.8% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 65 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.63% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.02% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 61 individuals (or about 0.59% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was
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, and 160 (or about 1.54% of the population) who were
Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...
ic. There were 6 individuals who were
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, 4 individuals who were
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and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 148 (or about 1.43% of the population) belonged to no church, are
agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. (page 56 in 1967 edition) It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to ...
or
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
, and 283 individuals (or about 2.73% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In the entire Raron district about 3,941 or (38.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory
upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...
, and 636 or (6.1%) have completed additional higher education (either
University A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...
or a ''
Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...
''). Of the 636 who completed tertiary schooling, 76.6% were Swiss men, 15.9% were Swiss women, 4.4% were non-Swiss men and 3.1% were non-Swiss women.


References

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