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Courfaivre is a former
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the district of
Delémont Delémont (; ; , ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Jura. The city has approximately 12,000 inhabitants . History The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn burials have been discovered in the ...
in the
canton Canton may refer to: Administrative divisions * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and entertainment * Canton (band), an It ...
of Jura in
Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of
Bassecourt Bassecourt () is a former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Delémont (district), Delémont in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of ...
, Courfaivre,
Glovelier Glovelier is a former municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Bassecourt, Courfaivre, Glovelier, Soulce and Undervelier merged to form the new municipality ...
,
Soulce Soulce () is a former municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Bassecourt, Courfaivre, Glovelier, Soulce and Undervelier merged to form the new municipality of ...
and
Undervelier Undervelier is a former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Delémont (district), Delémont in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Bass ...
merged to form the new municipality of
Haute-Sorne Haute-Sorne is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Bassecourt, Courfaivre, Glovelier, Soulce and Undervelier merged to form the new municipality of ...
.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 2 January 2013


History

Courfaivre is first mentioned in 1147 as ''Curfavro''.


Geography

Courfaivre had an area of . Of this area, or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.5% is unproductive land.
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, 37.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 29.0% is used for growing crops and 16.9% is pastures and 4.5% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The former municipality is located in the Delemont district, on the Delemont-
Glovelier Glovelier is a former municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Bassecourt, Courfaivre, Glovelier, Soulce and Undervelier merged to form the new municipality ...
road on the right bank of the Sorne river.


Coat of arms

The
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of the municipal
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is ''Gules bordered Or, a Cat Argent sejant guardant.''


Demographics

Courfaivre had a population () of 1,618.Swiss Federal Statistics Office – STAT-TAB
''Ständige und Nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Region, Geschlecht, Nationalität und Alter'' accessed 3 October 2012
, 9.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.
accessed 19 June 2010
Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 1.7%. Migration accounted for -2.6%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.4%.
accessed 21-December-2011
Most of the population () speaks
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(1,412 or 91.9%) as their first language,
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is the second most common (48 or 3.1%) and
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is the third (27 or 1.8%). , the population was 48.6% male and 51.4% female. The population was made up of 683 Swiss men (43.0% of the population) and 89 (5.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 739 Swiss women (46.5%) and 77 (4.8%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 542 or about 35.3% were born in Courfaivre and lived there in 2000. There were 511 or 33.2% who were born in the same canton, while 202 or 13.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 218 or 14.2% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.2%. , there were 617 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 779 married individuals, 88 widows or widowers and 53 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 579 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 138 households that consist of only one person and 55 households with five or more people. , a total of 568 apartments (88.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 47 apartments (7.3%) were seasonally occupied and 27 apartments (4.2%) 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 1.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 3.65%. 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:1600 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:300 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:60 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1675 from:start till:240 text:"240" bar:1818 from:start till:554 text:"554" bar:1850 from:start till:668 text:"668" bar:1860 from:start till:646 text:"646" bar:1870 from:start till:595 text:"595" bar:1880 from:start till:671 text:"671" bar:1888 from:start till:715 text:"715" bar:1900 from:start till:659 text:"659" bar:1910 from:start till:777 text:"777" bar:1920 from:start till:836 text:"836" bar:1930 from:start till:914 text:"914" bar:1941 from:start till:1075 text:"1,075" bar:1950 from:start till:1214 text:"1,214" bar:1960 from:start till:1307 text:"1,307" bar:1970 from:start till:1326 text:"1,326" bar:1980 from:start till:1256 text:"1,256" bar:1990 from:start till:1348 text:"1,348" bar:2000 from:start till:1537 text:"1,537"


Heritage sites of national significance

The St-Germain-D‘Auxerre Church is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.


Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 38.59% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (20.6%), the CVP (17.37%) and the CSP (14.76%). In the federal election, a total of 413 votes were cast, and the
voter turnout In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This is typically either the percentage of Voter registration, registered voters, Suffrage, eligible voters, or all Voti ...
was 38.6%.


Economy

, Courfaivre had an unemployment rate of 5.3%. , there were 49 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 14 businesses involved in this sector. 117 people were employed in the
secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...
and there were 21 businesses in this sector. 127 people were employed in the
tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...
, with 29 businesses in this sector. There were 770 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.4% of the workforce. the total number of
full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit of measurement that indicates the workload of an employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often use ...
jobs was 249. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 33, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 113 of which 77 or (68.1%) were in manufacturing and 35 (31.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 103. In the tertiary sector; 44 or 42.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 5.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 7 or 6.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 11 or 10.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 8 or 7.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 13 or 12.6% were in education. , there were 221 workers who commuted into the municipality and 566 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 7.7% of the workforce coming into Courfaivre are coming from outside Switzerland.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 9.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 70.3% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 1,153 or 75.0% were
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, while 139 or 9.0% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.13% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 74 individuals (or about 4.81% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 32 (or about 2.08% of the population) who were
Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...
ic. There were 8 individuals who were
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and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 88 (or about 5.73% of the population) belonged to no church, are
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or
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
, and 75 individuals (or about 4.88% of the population) did not answer the question.


Transport

Courfaivre sits on the Delémont–Delle line and is served by trains at Courfaivre railway station.


Education

In Courfaivre about 533 or (34.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory
upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...
, and 108 or (7.0%) have completed additional higher education (either
university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...
or a ''
Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...
''). Of the 108 who completed tertiary schooling, 64.8% were Swiss men, 23.1% were Swiss women, 6.5% were non-Swiss men and 5.6% were non-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
apprenticeship Apprenticeship is a system for training a potential new practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study. Apprenticeships may also enable practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulat ...
. During the 2009-10 school year, there were a total of 162 students attending 9 classes in Courfaivre. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 34 students in the municipality.Effectifs de l'école enfantine 2009-2010
accessed 19 December 2011
The municipality had 7 primary classes and 128 students.
accessed 19 December 2011
There are only nine Secondary schools in the canton, so all the students from Courfaivre attend their secondary school in another municipality. , there were 124 students from Courfaivre who attended schools outside the municipality.


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External links

* {{Authority control Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Jura Former municipalities of the canton of Jura