Alberswil is a

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in the district of

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in the canton of

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History

Alberswil is first mentioned around 1220 as ''Alberswile''.

Geography

Alberswil has an area, , of . Of this area, 73.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 18.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (classed as other, not water, unproductive land). , 18.16% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 70.95% is used for farming or pastures, while 2.79% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 3.35% is covered with buildings, 0.56% is industrial, 0.56% is classed as special developments, and 3.35% is transportation infrastructure. The municipality is located on the edge of the ''Wauwilermoos'' bog. It consists of the

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of Alberswil, the

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of Burgrain and Schloss (castle) Kasteln.

Demographics

Alberswil has a population (as of ) of . , 65 or about 11.4% are not Swiss citizens.LUSTAT-Canton Lucerne Statistical Office
accessed 25 August 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 10.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (91.4%), with Albanian being second most common ( 4.6%) and Turkish being third ( 1.9%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the CVP which received 41.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (30.5%), the SVP (17.7%) and the

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(7%). The age distribution, , in Alberswil is; 159 people or 27.8% of the population is 0–19 years old. 165 people or 28.8% are 20–39 years old, and 185 people or 32.3% are 40–64 years old. The senior population distribution is 43 people or 7.5% are 65–79 years old, 18 or 3.1% are 80–89 years old and 2 people or 0.3% of the population are 90+ years old.LUSTAT Lucerne Cantonal Statistics
accessed 12 August 2009 In Alberswil about 57.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). there are 186 households, of which 43 households (or about 23.1%) contain only a single individual. 29 or about 15.6% are large households, with at least five members. there were 113 inhabited buildings in the municipality, of which 88 were built only as housing, and 25 were

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buildings. There were 66 single family homes, 12 double family homes, and 10 multi-family homes in the municipality. Most homes were either two (54) or three (19) story structures. There were only 10 single story buildings and 5 four or more story buildings. Alberswil has an unemployment rate of 0.48%. , there were 41 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 14 businesses involved in this sector. 25 people are employed in the

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and there are 10 businesses in this sector. 42 people are employed in the

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, with 12 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 25-Aug-2009 55.3% of the population of the municipality were employed in some capacity. At the same time, females made up 42.6% of the workforce. the religious membership of Alberswil was; 413 (79.%) were Roman Catholic, and 49 (9.4%) were Protestant, with an additional 8 (1.53%) that were of some other Christian faith. There are 22 individuals (4.21% of the population) who are Muslim. Of the rest; there were 14 (2.68%) who do not belong to any organized religion, 17 (3.25%) who did not answer the question. The historical population is given in the following table:

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Lucerne