Mägenwil is a
municipality
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in the district of
Baden
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in the
canton
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of
Aargau
Aargau ( ; ), more formally the Canton of Aargau (; ; ; ), is one of the Canton of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capital is Aarau.
Aargau is one of the most nort ...
in
Switzerland
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.
History
Mägenwil is first mentioned in 924 as ''Maganwilare''. In 1273 it was mentioned as ''Echwile''.
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Geography
Mägenwil has an area, , of . Of this area, 45.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 30.3% is forested. The rest of the land, (24%) is settled.[
The municipality is located in the Baden district, on the southern edge of the ''Birrfeld'' region. It consists of the ]linear village
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of Mägenwil and the hamlets
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of Eckwil with which it was grown together. Before 1905 Eckwil was an independent municipality.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Gules a Poppy Seedpod Or slipped and leaved.''
Demographics
Mägenwil has a population (as of ) of . , 17.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung]
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 25.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (88.7%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.9%) and Albanian being third ( 1.8%).
accessed 9 February 2010[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)]
accessed 20 January 2010
, there were 52 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 257 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 276 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.54 individuals.[ there were 350 single family homes (or 49.2% of the total) out of a total of 712 homes and apartments.][Statistical Department of Canton Aargau]
accessed 20 January 2010
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 42.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (17.4%), the FDP (14.6%) and the SP (11.1%).[
The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Mägenwil about 74.1% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory ]upper secondary education
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or additional higher education (either university or a ''Fachhochschule
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'').[ Of the school age population (), there are 176 students attending ]primary school
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in the municipality.[
The historical population is given in the following table:]
Transportation
Mägenwil railway station
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is a stop of the S-Bahn Zürich
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on the line S11.
Economy
, Mägenwil had an unemployment rate of 2.06%. , there were 38 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 324 people are employed in the secondary sector
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and there are 20 businesses in this sector. 1,158 people are employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 95 businesses in this sector.[
there was a total of 828 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 644 or about 77.8% of the residents worked outside Mägenwil while 1,238 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 1,422 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen]
accessed 21 January 2010
Religion
From the , 703 or 45.3% are Roman Catholic
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, while 501 or 32.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there are 2 individuals (or about 0.13% of the population) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009]
accessed 20 January 2010
References
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Municipalities of Aargau