Muri District is a district in the Swiss

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with the administrative capital of Muri. It covers the central and southern part of

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and has a population of (as of ).

Geography

The Muri district has an area, , of . Of this area, or 68.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.8% is settled (buildings or roads).

Coat of arms

The

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of the district

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is ''Gules a Wall in fess embattled Argent masoned Sable..''

Demographics

The Muri district has a population () of . , 13.2% of the population are foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung
accessed 20 January 2010

Economy

there were 15,053 workers who lived in the district. Of these, 10,391 or about 69.0% of the residents worked outside the Muri district while 4,675 people commuted into the district for work. There were a total of 9,337 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the district.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen
accessed 21 January 2010

Religion

From the , 18,897 or 66.9% were

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, while 4,960 or 17.6% 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 18 individuals (or about 0.06% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

Education

Of the school age population (), there are 2,724 students attending

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, there are 935 students attending

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, there are 569 students attending tertiary or university level schooling, and there are 14 students who are seeking a job after school in the municipality.

Municipalities

Mergers

The following changes to the district's municipalities have occurred since 2000: *On 1 January 2012 the municipality of Benzenschwil merged into Merenschwand.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 21 December 2011

References

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