Unteriberg is a village and

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in the

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. Besides the village of Unteriberg, the municipality includes the villages of Studen, Waag, Stöcken and Herti.

History

Unteriberg is first mentioned around 1217-22 as ''Yberge''. Until the separation, in 1884, into Unteriberg and

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the independent municipality was known simply as Iberg. Unteriberg is the hometown of noted ski racer

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Geography

The municipality of Unteriberg lies in the valleys of the

Sihl The Sihl is a Switzerland, Swiss river that rises near the Druesberg mountain in the canton of Schwyz, and eventually flows into the Limmat in the centre of the Zürich, city of Zürich, after crossing the Zürich–Winterthur railway at . It has ...

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and Minster rivers, at the southern end of the artificial

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. The villages of Unteriberg, Stöcken and Herti all lie on the Minster river close to its confluence with the Waag. The village of Waag is on its namesake river, whilst Studen is on the Sihl. To the south of the municipality is the mountain of

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, whose northern slopes are shared between Unteriberg and the neighbouring municipality of

. To the east is the

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mountain. The municipality has an area, , of . Of this area, 44.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 35.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (17.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Demographics

Unteriberg has a population (as of ) of . , 5.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.2%), with Portuguese being second most common ( 0.4%) and Albanian being third ( 0.3%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 31-Aug-2009 the gender distribution of the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female. The age distribution, , in Unteriberg is; 708 people or 31.9% of the population is between 0 and 19. 638 people or 28.7% are 20 to 39, and 628 people or 28.3% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 151 people or 6.8% are 65 to 74. There are 72 people or 3.2% who are 70 to 79 and 23 people or 1.04% of the population who are over 80.Canton Schwyz Statistics
accessed 27 August 2009 there are 802 households, of which 194 households (or about 24.2%) contain only a single individual. 75 or about 9.4% are large households, with at least five members. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 76% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (10.1%), the FDP (6.8%) and the SPS (5%). In Unteriberg about 55.9% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory

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or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). Unteriberg has an unemployment rate of 1.18%. , there were 133 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 57 businesses involved in this sector. 229 people are employed in the

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and there are 38 businesses in this sector. 284 people are employed in the

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, with 75 businesses in this sector. From the , 1,880 or 84.7% are

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, while 189 or 8.5% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there are 10 individuals (or about 0.45% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church. There are 21 (or about 0.95% of the population) who are

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ic. 70 (or about 3.15% of the population) belong to no church, are

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, and 50 individuals (or about 2.25% of the population) did not answer the question. The historical population is given in the following table:

References

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