Cornol is a
municipality
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in the district of
Porrentruy
Porrentruy (, fc, Poérreintru , german: Pruntrut) 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 pre ...
in the
canton
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Arts and ente ...
of
Jura in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
History
Cornol is first mentioned in 1136 as ''Coronotum''.
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Geography
Cornol has an area of . Of this area, or 57.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.8% is unproductive land.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 The ''Étang de la Montoie'', a pond, is located in Cornol.
Of the built-up area, housing and buildings made up 2.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.4%. Out of the forested land, 32.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 35.0% is used for growing crops and 16.5% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops and 4.0% is used for alpine pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 0.3% is in lakes and 0.4% is in rivers and streams.[
The municipality is located in the Porrentruy district, on the road to Les Rangiers.
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Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Argent, three Moors' heads proper banded Gules.''
Demographics
Cornol has a population () of . , 3.8% 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 9.7%. Migration accounted for 10.2%, while births and deaths accounted for 0%.
accessed 29-December-2011French
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(742 or 93.1%) as their first language, German
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is the second most common (29 or 3.6%) and Italian
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is the third (9 or 1.1%).[
, the population was 50.3% male and 49.7% female. The population was made up of 431 Swiss men (48.3% of the population) and 18 (2.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 425 Swiss women (47.6%) and 18 (2.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 350 or about 43.9% were born in Cornol and lived there in 2000. There were 245 or 30.7% who were born in the same canton, while 76 or 9.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 97 or 12.2% were born outside of Switzerland.][
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.7%.][
, there were 302 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 396 married individuals, 51 widows or widowers and 48 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 332 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household.[ There were 93 households that consist of only one person and 24 households with five or more people. , a total of 325 apartments (90.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 25 apartments (6.9%) were seasonally occupied and 11 apartments (3.0%) were empty.][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011 The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 2.02%.[
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Heritage sites of national significance
The prehistoric site and medieval castle at Mont Terri is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the CVP which received 37.09% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS
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(26.43%), the SVP (15.37%) and the FDP (13.73%). In the federal election, a total of 250 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 37.5%.
Economy
, Cornol had an unemployment rate of 3.8%. , there were 35 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 325 people were employed in the secondary sector
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and there were 18 businesses in this sector. 88 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 26 businesses in this sector.[ There were 395 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.0% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 418. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 27, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 317 of which 277 or (87.4%) were in manufacturing and 40 (12.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 74. In the tertiary sector; 20 or 27.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 19 or 25.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 8 or 10.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 5.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 5 or 6.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 8 or 10.8% were in education and 1 was in health care.
, there were 209 workers who commuted into the municipality and 245 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 20.1% of the workforce coming into Cornol are coming from outside Switzerland.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 6.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 72.9% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 656 or 82.3% were Roman Catholic
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, while 51 or 6.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church, there were 4 individuals (or about 0.50% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 16 individuals (or about 2.01% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 (or about 0.25% of the population) who were Islam
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ic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist
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and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 37 (or about 4.64% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 32 individuals (or about 4.02% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Cornol about 252 or (31.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 42 or (5.3%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 42 who completed tertiary schooling, 76.2% were Swiss men, 14.3% were Swiss women.[
The Canton of Jura school system provides two year of non-obligatory ]Kindergarten
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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 apprenticeship
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.[Effectifs de l'école enfantine 2009-2010]
accessed 19 December 2011 The municipality had 4 primary classes and 73 students.
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References
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Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Jura