Wölflinswil is a
municipality
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in the district of
Laufenburg in the
canton of
Aargau
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Aargau is one of the most nort ...
in
Switzerland
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Geography
Wölflinswil has an area, , of . Of this area, or 62.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 31.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% 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 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. Out of the forested land, 28.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 39.4% is used for growing crops and 18.2% is pastures, while 4.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
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Coat of arms
"The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Or a Wolf Gules passant regardant.'' The wolf is an example of canting
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Demographics
Wölflinswil has a population () of . , 5.0% 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 5.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (96.2%), with Albanian being second most common ( 1.8%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.6%).
accessed 10-May-2010
The age distribution, , in Wölflinswil is; 115 children or 12.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 110 teenagers or 12.1% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 109 people or 12.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 123 people or 13.5% are between 30 and 39, 159 people or 17.5% are between 40 and 49, and 111 people or 12.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 108 people or 11.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 36 people or 4.0% are between 70 and 79, there are 33 people or 3.6% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 5 people or 0.6% 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 17 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 119 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 148 homes with 5 or more persons in the household.[ , there were 294 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.][ there were 176 single family homes (or 51.8% of the total) out of a total of 340 homes and apartments.][Statistical Department of Canton Aargau]
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 3 empty apartments for a 0.9% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 14.9 new units per 1000 residents.[
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 44.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (21%), the SP (10.2%) and the FDP (7.1%).][
In Wölflinswil about 75.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a '']Fachhochschule
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'').[ Of the school age population (), there are 81 students attending ]primary school
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in the municipality.[
The historical population is given in the following table:][
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Sights
The village of Wölflinswil is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
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Economy
, Wölflinswil had an unemployment rate of 1.63%. , there were 110 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 37 businesses involved in this sector. 57 people are employed in the secondary sector
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and there are 8 businesses in this sector. 104 people are employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 23 businesses in this sector.[
there were 429 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 291 or about 67.8% of the residents worked outside Wölflinswil while 71 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 209 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, 14.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 45% used a private car.[
Wölflinswil has a kindergarten and a primary school. Sekundarschule and ]Realschule
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can be attended in Gipf-Oberfrick and Bezirksschule in Frick. The nearest Kantonsschule is in Aarau
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Religion
From the , 529 or 67.5% were Roman Catholic
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, while 138 or 17.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Wölflinswil has one Catholic Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009]
accessed 20 January 2010
References
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Municipalities of Aargau