Niederwil was a

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in the district of Lebern in the canton of

Solothurn Solothurn ( ; ; ; ; ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains. The town is ...

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. In 2011 Niederwil merged into

Riedholz Riedholz is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. In 2011 Niederwil merged into Riedholz.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office . Retrieved 18 February 2011

History

Niederwil is first mentioned in 1292 as ''Lomolzwile''.

Geography

Niederwil has an area, , of . Of this area, or 54.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.2% is settled (buildings or roads).
2009 data . Retrieved 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Out of the forested land, 33.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.1% is used for growing crops and 23.7% is pastures, while 2.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. The village is located in the Lebern district, in a small trough near the Siggern.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Azure a Gypsum-pounder, consisting of a Crankshaft, with three Rammers over seven calcareous Stones all Argent.''

Demographics

Niederwil has a population () of .Canton Solothurn Statistical Office
, MS Excel document – ''Bevölkerungsbestand nach Gemeinden 31.12.2010'' . Retrieved 29 March 2011 Over the last 10 years (1999-2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 0%.
. Retrieved 3 April 2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(334 or 94.4%), with

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being second most common (7 or 2.0%) and

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being third (3 or 0.8%). There is 1 person who speaks French. , the gender distribution of the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 186 Swiss men (45.8% of the population) and 12 (3.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 195 Swiss women (48.0%) and 13 (3.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the village 119 or about 33.6% were born in Niederwil and lived there in 2000. There were 127 or 35.9% who were born in the same canton, while 67 or 18.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 38 or 10.7% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 3 live births to Swiss citizens and were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss man and 4 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 9 and the non-Swiss population increased by 6 people. This represents a

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of 3.9%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
. Retrieved 19 June 2010 The age distribution, , in Niederwil is; 21 children or 5.9% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 76 teenagers or 21.5% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 9 people or 2.5% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old. 116 people or 32.8% are between 25 and 44, and 87 people or 24.6% are between 45 and 64. The senior population distribution is 36 people or 10.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 9 people or 2.5% who are over 80. , there were 140 people who were single and never married in the village. There were 183 married individuals, 17 widows or widowers and 14 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
. Retrieved 2 February 2011 , there were private households in the village, and an average of . persons per household. There were 37 households that consist of only one person and 15 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 143 households that answered this question, 25.9% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 37 married couples without children, 52 married couples with children There were 8 single parents with a child or children. There were 5 households that were made up of unrelated people and 1 household that was made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 69 single family homes (or 62.7% of the total) out of a total of 110 inhabited buildings. There were 22 multi-family buildings (20.0%), along with 15 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (13.6%) and 4 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.6%). Of the single family homes 6 were built before 1919, while 10 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (17) were built between 1971 and 1980.Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
. Retrieved 28 January 2011 there were 149 apartments in the village. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 38. There were 1 single room apartments and 66 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 134 apartments (89.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 10 apartments (6.7%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (3.4%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the village, , was %. 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:400 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:1778 from:start till:206 text:"206" bar:1798 from:start till:258 text:"258" bar:1850 from:start till:213 text:"213" bar:1860 from:start till:195 text:"195" bar:1870 from:start till:179 text:"179" bar:1880 from:start till:195 text:"195" bar:1888 from:start till:230 text:"230" bar:1900 from:start till:232 text:"232" bar:1910 from:start till:233 text:"233" bar:1920 from:start till:309 text:"309" bar:1930 from:start till:277 text:"277" bar:1941 from:start till:286 text:"286" bar:1950 from:start till:257 text:"257" bar:1960 from:start till:245 text:"245" bar:1970 from:start till:285 text:"285" bar:1980 from:start till:293 text:"293" bar:1990 from:start till:326 text:"326" bar:2000 from:start till:354 text:"354"

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 27.55% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (26.24%), the CVP (19.58%) and the

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(13.52%). In the federal election, a total of 142 votes were cast, and the

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was 48.5%.

Economy

, Niederwil had an unemployment rate of 0%. , there were people employed in the primary economic sector and about businesses involved in this sector. people were employed in the

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

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, with businesses in this sector. There were 192 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.7% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 53. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 13, of which 9 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 15 of which 4 or (26.7%) were in manufacturing and 11 (73.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 25. In the tertiary sector; 14 or 56.0% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 16.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 8.0% were in the information industry, 2 or 8.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 3 or 12.0% were in education.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
. Retrieved 28 January 2011 , there were 22 workers who commuted into the village and 149 workers who commuted away. The village is a net exporter of workers, with about 6.8 workers leaving the village for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
. Retrieved 24 June 2010 Of the working population, % used public transportation to get to work, and % used a private car.

Religion

From the , 153 or 43.2% were

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, while 130 or 36.7% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church who belonged. There were 10 (or about 2.82% of the population) who were

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ic. There was 1 person who was

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and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 54 (or about 15.25% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 4 individuals (or about 1.13% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Niederwil about 142 or (40.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 41 or (11.6%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 41 who completed tertiary schooling, 73.2% were Swiss men, 26.8% were Swiss women. , there were 3 students in Niederwil who came from another village, while 45 residents attended schools outside the village.

References

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