Courchavon () 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

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History

Courchavon is first mentioned in 1279 as ''Corchavon''.

Geography

Courchavon has an area of . Of this area, or 30.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 60.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.6% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.7%. Out of the forested land, 59.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 12.8% is used for growing crops and 16.6% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Porrentruy district, on the left bank of the

Allaine The Allaine ( (f), in its lower course ''l'Allan'' (m), () is a 65 km long river in northwestern Switzerland and eastern France. Its source is above the village Charmoille, in the Swiss Jura mountains. Downstream from its confluence with t ...

river. It consists of the village of Courchavon and the

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of Mormont.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Azure, a Mullet f SixOr in chief between a Saltire of the same.''

Demographics

Courchavon has a population () of . , 4.4% 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 1.7%. Migration accounted for -1.3%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.3%.
accessed 29-December-2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(280 or 95.6%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (10 or 3.4%) and Portuguese is the third (2 or 0.7%). , the population was 47.9% male and 52.1% female. The population was made up of 134 Swiss men (43.9% of the population) and 12 (3.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 153 Swiss women (50.2%) and 6 (2.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 142 or about 48.5% were born in Courchavon and lived there in 2000. There were 95 or 32.4% who were born in the same canton, while 27 or 9.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 25 or 8.5% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 30.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 52.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.4%. , there were 120 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 138 married individuals, 27 widows or widowers and 8 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 109 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 29 households that consist of only one person and 16 households with five or more people. , a total of 106 apartments (85.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 10 apartments (8.1%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (6.5%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 6.6 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 5.19%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1080 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:460 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:90 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:18 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1770 from:start till:225 text:"225" bar:1818 from:start till:239 text:"239" bar:1850 from:start till:306 text:"306" bar:1860 from:start till:318 text:"318" bar:1870 from:start till:457 text:"457" bar:1880 from:start till:349 text:"349" bar:1888 from:start till:336 text:"336" bar:1900 from:start till:311 text:"311" bar:1910 from:start till:278 text:"278" bar:1920 from:start till:292 text:"292" bar:1930 from:start till:316 text:"316" bar:1941 from:start till:314 text:"314" bar:1950 from:start till:321 text:"321" bar:1960 from:start till:272 text:"272" bar:1970 from:start till:282 text:"282" bar:1980 from:start till:269 text:"269" bar:1990 from:start till:274 text:"274" bar:2000 from:start till:293 text:"293"

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 70.93% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (12.8%), the FDP (8.65%) and the SVP (6.92%). In the federal election, a total of 148 votes were cast, and the

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was 68.8%.

Economy

, Courchavon had an unemployment rate of 3.8%. , there were 22 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 127 people were employed in the

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and there were 8 businesses in this sector. 29 people were employed in the

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, with 8 businesses in this sector. There were 118 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.7% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 163. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 14, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 124 of which 89 or (71.8%) were in manufacturing and 35 (28.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 25. In the tertiary sector; 4 or 16.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 8 or 32.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 16.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 1 was in education. , there were 95 workers who commuted into the municipality and 80 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.2 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 26.3% of the workforce coming into Courchavon are coming from outside Switzerland.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 14.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.9% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 253 or 86.3% were

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, while 15 or 5.1% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 26 individuals (or about 8.87% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 1 individual who belonged to another church. 10 (or about 3.41% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 1 individuals (or about 0.34% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Courchavon about 85 or (29.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory

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, and 10 or (3.4%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 10 who completed tertiary schooling, 70.0% were Swiss men, 30.0% 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 Courchavon. , there were 6 students in Courchavon who came from another municipality, while 52 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Transportation

The municipality has a railway station, . It is located on the Delémont–Delle line and has regular service to and Meroux (in France).

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Jura