Neckertal is a

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in the

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district of the

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. It was formed on January 1, 2009, through the merger of Brunnadern, St. Peterzell, and

Mogelsberg Mogelsberg is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bo ...

.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 14 January 2010 On 1 January 2023 the former municipalities of Hemberg and

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merged into the new municipality of Neckertal.

Geography

Neckertal has an area of . As of 2012, a total of or 53.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.8% is forested. The rest of the municipality is or 5.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.5% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 During the same year, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. A total of 36.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 51.7% is pasturage and 1.1% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. It is made up of the villages of Brunnadern, St. Peterzell, and Mogelsberg as well as the

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of Wald-Schönengrund, Dicken, Nassen, Hoffeld, Dieselbach, Ebersol and Necker.

Demographics

Neckertal has a population () of . , 7.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of -2.0%. Migration accounted for -2.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.2%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 8 August 2014 Most of the population () speaks

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(95.5%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (0.2%) and

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is the third (0.9%). , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.3%. , there were 460 households that consist of only one person and 206 households with five or more people. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0.5 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.7%. In 2012, single family homes made up 56.9% of the total housing in the municipality. there were 1,838 households in the municipality.City of Neckertal website-numbers
accessed 15 January 2010

Historic population

The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width: auto height:500 barincrement:45 PlotArea = top:20 left:40 bottom:90 right:35 Legend = columns:3 left:20 top:70 columnwidth:160 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:5300 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:1000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:200 start:0 Colors= id:BR value:yellowgreen legend:Brunnadern id:ST value:green legend:St._Peterzell id:MO value:blue legend:Mogelsberg PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:30 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from: 0 till:931 text:"931" color:BR bar:1860 from: 0 till:859 text:"859" color:BR bar:1870 from: 0 till:766 text:"766" color:BR bar:1880 from: 0 till:811 text:"811" color:BR bar:1890 from: 0 till:814 text:"814" color:BR bar:1900 from: 0 till:710 text:"710" color:BR bar:1910 from: 0 till:729 text:"729" color:BR bar:1920 from: 0 till:704 text:"704" color:BR bar:1930 from: 0 till:640 text:"640" color:BR bar:1940 from: 0 till:583 text:"583" color:BR bar:1950 from: 0 till:735 text:"735" color:BR bar:1960 from: 0 till:611 text:"611" color:BR bar:1970 from: 0 till:587 text:"587" color:BR bar:1980 from: 0 till:683 text:"683" color:BR bar:1990 from: 0 till:833 text:"833" color:BR bar:2000 from: 0 till:917 text:"917" color:BR bar:1850 from: 931 till:2124 text:"1,193" color:ST bar:1860 from: 859 till:2112 text:"1,253" color:ST bar:1870 from: 766 till:2071 text:"1,305" color:ST bar:1880 from: 811 till:2074 text:"1,263" color:ST bar:1890 from: 814 till:2180 text:"1,366" color:ST bar:1900 from: 710 till:1982 text:"1,272" color:ST bar:1910 from: 729 till:2015 text:"1,286" color:ST bar:1920 from: 704 till:1880 text:"1,176" color:ST bar:1930 from: 640 till:1722 text:"1,082" color:ST bar:1940 from: 583 till:1606 text:"1,023" color:ST bar:1950 from: 735 till:1742 text:"1,007" color:ST bar:1960 from: 611 till:1525 text:"914" color:ST bar:1970 from: 587 till:1484 text:"897" color:ST bar:1980 from: 683 till:1539 text:"856" color:ST bar:1990 from: 833 till:1995 text:"1,162" color:ST bar:2000 from: 917 till:2173 text:"1,256" color:ST bar:1850 from: 2124 till:4965 text:"2,841" color:MO bar:1860 from: 2112 till:5073 text:"2,961" color:MO bar:1870 from: 2071 till:5021 text:"2,950" color:MO bar:1880 from: 2074 till:5144 text:"3,070" color:MO bar:1890 from: 2180 till:5277 text:"3,097" color:MO bar:1900 from: 1982 till:4759 text:"2,777" color:MO bar:1910 from: 2015 till:4947 text:"2,932" color:MO bar:1920 from: 1880 till:4489 text:"2,609" color:MO bar:1930 from: 1722 till:4136 text:"2,414" color:MO bar:1940 from: 1606 till:3921 text:"2,315" color:MO bar:1950 from: 1742 till:4227 text:"2,485" color:MO bar:1960 from: 1525 till:3930 text:"2,405" color:MO bar:1970 from: 1484 till:3648 text:"2,164" color:MO bar:1980 from: 1539 till:3348 text:"1,809" color:MO bar:1990 from: 1995 till:4174 text:"2,179" color:MO bar:2000 from: 2173 till:4434 text:"2,261" color:MO

Economy

, Neckertal had an unemployment rate of 1.51%. , there were a total of 1,531 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 374 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 168 businesses involved in this sector. 404 people were employed in the

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and there were 76 businesses in this sector. 753 people were employed in the

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, with 190 businesses in this sector. Of the working population, 14.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 46.1% used a private car. In 2012 the average local and cantonal tax rate on a married resident, with two children, of Neckertal making 150,000 CHF was 10.6%, while an unmarried resident's rate was 17.9%. For comparison, the average rate for the entire canton in 2011, was 11.9% and 20.7%, while the nationwide average was 12.3% and 21.1% respectively. In 2010 there were a total of 1,636 tax payers in the municipality. Of that total, 419 made over 75,000 CHF per year. There were 33 people who made between 15,000 and 20,000 per year. The greatest number of workers, 436, made between 50,000 and 75,000 CHF per year. The average income of the over 75,000 CHF group in Neckertal was 110,379 CHF, while the average across all of Switzerland was 131,244 CHF. In 2011 a total of 0.0% of the population received direct financial assistance from the government.

Heritage sites of national significance

There are three buildings in Mogelsberg that are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance. They are the ''Haus Näf'', the ''Oberes Türmlihaus'' and the ''Unteres Türmlihaus''. The entire village of Mogelsberg and the Spreitenbach / Furth area are both part of the

Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites The Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS) is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage. Sites of national importance Types The types are based on t ...

.Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance
21.11.2008 version, accessed 15-Jan-2010 File:Neckertal Furt Haus Näf sw.JPG, Haus Näf at Furt 520 File:Neckertal Oberes Türmlihaus so.JPG, Oberes Türmlihaus at Furtstrasse 93 File:Neckertal Unteres Türmlihaus so.JPG, Unteres Türmlihaus at Furtstrasse 95

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party (SVP) which received 37.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) (17.4%), the

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(13.7%) and the Social Democratic Party (SP) (12.3%). In the federal election, a total of 1,377 votes were cast, and the

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was 46.5%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2011 Election
accessed 8 May 2012

Religion

In 2000 about 53.9% of the population belonged to a Protestant church, 31.2% were

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and 7.5% had no religious affiliation.

Education

In Neckertal about 51.4% of the population have completed non-mandatory

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, and 14.5% have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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'').

References

External links

Official website
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