Fahy is a

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in the district of

Porrentruy Porrentruy (; ; ) is a Swiss municipality and seat of the district of the same name located in the canton of Jura. Porrentruy is home to National League team, HC Ajoie. History The first trace of human presence in Porrentruy is a Mesolit ...

in the

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of Jura in Switzerland.

History

It was mentioned in 1177 as ''Fahyl'' when it was one of the possessions of the priory of Lanthenans. In 1477, the bishop of Basel affirmed the rights of the village. In 1483 it was mentioned as ''Fahyt''. The village was under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Basel until the end of the 'Ancien Régime'. The village has remained essentially agricultural until 1950. It has undergone modest industrialisation, with the introduction of a Peugeot parts plant. The local church the Church of Saint-Pierre was constructed in 1787-1788 based on the plans of the architect Pierre Francois Paris.

Geography

Fahy has an area of . Of this area, or 53.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 25.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 12.9% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data . Retrieved 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. Out of the forested land, 23.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 37.5% is used for growing crops and 13.6% is pastures, while 1.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the unproductive areas, 10.3% is unproductive vegetation and 2.6% is too rocky for vegetation. The municipality is located in the Porrentruy district, on border with France, near

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Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent, a Beech Tree Vert trunked and eradicated proper issuant from a Mount of the second.''

Demographics

Fahy has a population () of . , 5.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
. Retrieved 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of -12.4%. Migration accounted for -6.6%, while births and deaths accounted for -1%.
accessed 30-December-2011 Most of the population () speaks French (369 or 95.6%) as their first language, German is the second most common (7 or 1.8%) and Italian is the third (6 or 1.6%). , the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 165 Swiss men (46.0% of the population) and 12 (3.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 176 Swiss women (49.0%) and 6 (1.7%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 186 or about 48.2% were born in Fahy and lived there in 2000. There were 110 or 28.5% who were born in the same canton, while 23 or 6.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 55 or 14.2% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.8%. , there were 152 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 198 married individuals, 20 widows or widowers and 16 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
. Retrieved 2 February 2011 , there were 149 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 30 households that consist of only one person and 14 households with five or more people. , a total of 139 apartments (78.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 26 apartments (14.7%) were seasonally occupied and 12 apartments (6.8%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
. Retrieved 28 January 2011 The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.11%. 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:600 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1809 from:start till:390 text:"390" bar:1850 from:start till:549 text:"549" bar:1860 from:start till:528 text:"528" bar:1870 from:start till:553 text:"553" bar:1880 from:start till:597 text:"597" bar:1888 from:start till:561 text:"561" bar:1900 from:start till:492 text:"492" bar:1910 from:start till:483 text:"483" bar:1920 from:start till:488 text:"488" bar:1930 from:start till:476 text:"476" bar:1941 from:start till:491 text:"491" bar:1950 from:start till:524 text:"524" bar:1960 from:start till:477 text:"477" bar:1970 from:start till:501 text:"501" bar:1980 from:start till:426 text:"426" bar:1990 from:start till:414 text:"414" bar:2000 from:start till:386 text:"386"

Heritage sites of national significance

The farm house at Bout-Dessous 18 and the house at Bout-Dessous 19 are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Fahy is part of the

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Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 33.67% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (30.65%), the SVP (16.08%) and the FDP (14.07%). In the federal election, a total of 100 votes were cast, and the

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was 35.0%.

Economy

, Fahy had an unemployment rate of 4.9%. , there were 39 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 17 businesses involved in this sector. 64 people were employed in the

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and there were 13 businesses in this sector. 89 people were employed in the

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, with 14 businesses in this sector. There were 192 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.2% of the workforce. the total number of

full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit of measurement that indicates the workload of an employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often use ...

jobs was 161. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 26, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 61 of which 56 or (91.8%) were in manufacturing and 5 (8.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 74. In the tertiary sector; 22 or 29.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 14 or 18.9% were in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 2.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 6.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 25 or 33.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 3 or 4.1% were in education. , there were 176 workers who commuted into the municipality and 88 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.0 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 35.2% of the workforce coming into Fahy are coming from outside Switzerland.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
. Retrieved 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 54.7% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 313 or 81.1% were

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, while 40 or 10.4% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 14 individuals (or about 3.63% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 (or about 0.52% 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. 15 (or about 3.89% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 9 individuals (or about 2.33% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Fahy about 107 or (27.7%) 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 33 or (8.5%) have completed additional higher education (either

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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 33 who completed tertiary schooling, 63.6% were Swiss men, 27.3% 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 no students attending school in Fahy. , there were 14 students in Fahy who came from another municipality, while 48 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Climate

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Jura Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Jura