Corban () is a former

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in the district of

Delémont Delémont (; ; , ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Jura. The city has approximately 12,000 inhabitants . History The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn burials have been discovered in the ...

in the canton of Jura in

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. On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Corban merged into the municipality of Val Terbi.

History

Corban is first mentioned in 1184 as ''Bathendorf''. In 1240 it was mentioned as ''Corpaon''.

Geography

Corban has an area of . Of this area, or 62.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land.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 1.4%. Out of the forested land, 31.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 40.0% is used for growing crops and 21.5% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Delemont district, in the eastern part of the Val Terbi. The municipalities of Corban, Courchapoix,

Courroux Courroux (, ; ) is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Delémont (district), Delémont in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. History Courroux is first mentioned in 1146 under its ...

, Mervelier, Montsevelier,

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and Vicques are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality of Val Terbi.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 17 February 2011

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Azure, a Bend Argent''. In 2004, 2 caterpillars were re-added to the coat of arms.

Demographics

Corban has a population () of . , 3.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 1.5%. Migration accounted for 1.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.7%.
accessed 20-December-2011 Most of the population () speaks French (424 or 93.8%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (23 or 5.1%) and

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is the third (2 or 0.4%). , the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female. The population was made up of 238 Swiss men (49.2% of the population) and 7 (1.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 226 Swiss women (46.7%) and 13 (2.7%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 223 or about 49.3% were born in Corban and lived there in 2000. There were 153 or 33.8% who were born in the same canton, while 48 or 10.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 20 or 4.4% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 29.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.2%. , there were 192 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 232 married individuals, 22 widows or widowers and 6 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 168 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 38 households that consist of only one person and 17 households with five or more people. , a total of 158 apartments (91.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 8 apartments (4.6%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (4.0%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.1 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 2.67%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:460 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:90 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:18 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1818 from:start till:314 text:"314" bar:1850 from:start till:392 text:"392" bar:1860 from:start till:395 text:"395" bar:1870 from:start till:428 text:"428" bar:1880 from:start till:422 text:"422" bar:1888 from:start till:375 text:"375" bar:1900 from:start till:389 text:"389" bar:1910 from:start till:375 text:"375" bar:1920 from:start till:407 text:"407" bar:1930 from:start till:432 text:"432" bar:1941 from:start till:397 text:"397" bar:1950 from:start till:457 text:"457" bar:1960 from:start till:429 text:"429" bar:1970 from:start till:409 text:"409" bar:1980 from:start till:402 text:"402" bar:1990 from:start till:446 text:"446" bar:2000 from:start till:452 text:"452"

Sights

The entire village of Corban is designated as part of the

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Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 39.02% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (32.75%), the SVP (17.77%) and the FDP (5.92%). In the federal election, a total of 145 votes were cast, and the

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was 40.1%.

Economy

, Corban had an unemployment rate of 3.3%. , there were 29 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 14 people were employed in the

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and there were 5 businesses in this sector. 17 people were employed in the

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, with 4 businesses in this sector. There were 219 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.4% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 50. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 25, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 13 of which 1 was in manufacturing and 12 (92.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 12. In the tertiary sector; 1 was in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 25.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, and 6 or 50.0% were in education. , there were 10 workers who commuted into the municipality and 175 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 17.5 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 14.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.6% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 381 or 84.3% were

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, while 39 or 8.6% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. There were 5 (or about 1.11% of the population) who were

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ic. There was 1 person who was

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. 18 (or about 3.98% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 7 individuals (or about 1.55% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Corban about 157 or (34.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 26 or (5.8%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 26 who completed tertiary schooling, 73.1% were Swiss men, 26.9% were Swiss women. The Canton of Jura school system provides two year of non-obligatory

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, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school followed by some form of Tertiary school or they may enter an

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. During the 2009-10 school year, there were a total of 45 students attending 4 classes in Corban. There was one kindergarten class with a total of 15 students in the municipality.Effectifs de l'école enfantine 2009-2010
accessed 19 December 2011 The municipality had 2.5 primary classes and 30 students.
accessed 19 December 2011 There are only nine Secondary schools in the canton, so all the students from Corban attend their secondary school in another municipality. , there were 41 students from Corban who attended schools outside the municipality.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Former municipalities of the canton of Jura