Courrendlin (; ) is a

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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

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of Jura in

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. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of

Rebeuvelier Rebeuvelier () is a former municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Rebeuvelier and Vellerat merged into the municipality of Courrendlin. History Rebeuvelier ...

and

Vellerat Vellerat () 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 2019, the former municipalities of Re ...

merged into the municipality of Courrendlin.

History

Courrendlin is first mentioned in 866 as ''Rendelana Corte''.

Geography

Courrendlin has an area of . Of this area, or 43.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 5.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.6%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.6% of the area Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 25.5% is used for growing crops and 12.1% is pastures and 5.1% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Delemont district, on the

Birs The Birs (French: ''Birse'') is a long river in Switzerland that flows through the Jura region and ends as a tributary to the Rhine between Basel and Birsfelden. It is the most important river of the Swiss Jura. Course The Birs has its sour ...

river as it flows out of Moutier canyon. It consists of the old

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of Courrendlin on the right side of the river, the train station and newer housing developments on the left bank and the

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complex of Choindez south of the village.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent, a Falcon Azure langued and belled Gules statant on Coupeaux Vert.''

Demographics

Courrendlin has a population () of . , 21.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 6 years (2010-2016) the population has changed at a rate of 12.40%. The

birth rate Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live childbirth, human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years. The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registr ...

in the municipality, in 2016, was 12.0, while the

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was 10.9 per thousand residents.Regionalporträts 2018: Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 17 September 2018 Most of the population () speaks

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(2,152 or 88.4%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (127 or 5.2%) and

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is the third (44 or 1.8%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , the population was 49.8% male and 50.2% female. The population was made up of 1,008 Swiss men (40.7% of the population) and 225 (9.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,036 Swiss women (41.8%) and 208 (8.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 823 or about 33.8% were born in Courrendlin and lived there in 2000. There were 753 or 30.9% who were born in the same canton, while 437 or 17.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 361 or 14.8% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.0% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) are 59.1% of the population and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.9%. In 2015 there were 1,237 single residents, 1,207 people who were married or in a civil partnership, 139 widows or widowers and 200 divorced residents. , there were 968 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
accessed 21-December-2011 There were 271 households that consist of only one person and 73 households with five or more people. , a total of 946 apartments (89.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 54 apartments (5.1%) were seasonally occupied and 52 apartments (4.9%) 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 5.7 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 5.3%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:3000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:500 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:100 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1818 from:start till:567 text:"567" bar:1850 from:start till:731 text:"731" bar:1860 from:start till:785 text:"785" bar:1870 from:start till:854 text:"854" bar:1880 from:start till:1040 text:"1,040" bar:1888 from:start till:1345 text:"1,345" bar:1900 from:start till:1908 text:"1,908" bar:1910 from:start till:2098 text:"2,098" bar:1920 from:start till:2009 text:"2,009" bar:1930 from:start till:1921 text:"1,921" bar:1941 from:start till:1966 text:"1,966" bar:1950 from:start till:2218 text:"2,218" bar:1960 from:start till:2418 text:"2,418" bar:1970 from:start till:2656 text:"2,656" bar:1980 from:start till:2435 text:"2,435" bar:1990 from:start till:2411 text:"2,411" bar:2000 from:start till:2435 text:"2,435" bar:2010 from:start till:2504 text:"2,504" bar:2016 from:start till:2882 text:"2,882"

Sights

The entire Choindez area is designated as part of the

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Politics

In the 2015 federal election the most popular party was the SP with 31.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (22.1%), the CVP (18.7%) and the FDP (10.1%). In the federal election, a total of 794 votes were cast, and the

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was 52.7%. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 47.24% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (16.81%), the CVP (14.55%) and the FDP (13.46%). In the federal election, a total of 659 votes were cast, and the

was 41.1%.

Economy

Courrendlin is a periurbane community. The municipality is part of the

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of Delémont. , there were a total of 743 people employed in the municipality. Of these, 36 people worked in 18 businesses in the primary economic sector. The

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employed 323 workers in 45 separate businesses, with one business employing 124 workers. Finally, the

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provided 384 jobs in 105 businesses. In 2016 a total of 12.2% of the population received social assistance. In 2011 the unemployment rate in the municipality was 5.6%. In 2015 the average cantonal, municipal and church tax rate in the municipality for a couple with two children making was 6% while the rate for a single person making was 20%, both of which are close to the average for the canton. The canton has a slightly higher than average tax rate for those making and a slightly higher than average rate for those making . In 2013 the average income in the municipality per tax payer was and the per person average was , which is less than the cantonal average of and respectively It is also less than the national per tax payer average of and the per person average of . the total number of

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jobs was 601. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 27, of which 26 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 260 of which 193 or (74.2%) were in manufacturing and 65 (25.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 314. In the tertiary sector; 123 or 39.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 29 or 9.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 18 or 5.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 1.3% were in the information industry, 3 or 1.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 15 or 4.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 33 or 10.5% were in education and 23 or 7.3% were in health care. , there were 602 workers who commuted into the municipality and 872 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 6.0% of the workforce coming into Courrendlin are coming from outside Switzerland.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 15.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 65% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 1,698 or 69.7% were

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, while 391 or 16.1% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church, there were 2 individuals (or about 0.08% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 103 individuals (or about 4.23% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 74 (or about 3.04% of the population) who were

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ic. There were 2 individuals who were

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, 1 person who was

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and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 137 (or about 5.63% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 75 individuals (or about 3.08% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Courrendlin about 889 or (36.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory

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, and 177 or (7.3%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 177 who completed tertiary schooling, 64.4% were Swiss men, 25.4% were Swiss women, 7.9% were non-Swiss men. 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 a total of 127 students attending 7 classes in Courrendlin. There were no kindergarten classes in the municipality.Effectifs de l'école enfantine 2009-2010
accessed 19 December 2011 The municipality had no primary school classes, all the students attended school in a neighboring school.
accessed 19 December 2011 During the same year, there were 7 lower secondary classes with a total of 127 students.
accessed 19 December 2011 , there were 46 students in Courrendlin who came from another municipality, while 85 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Jura