Riemenstalden is a

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in the

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. The villages can be reached by road from Sisikon (

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Geography

Riemenstalden has an area, , of . Of this area, 49.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 25.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (25%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). Alplersee is located on the slopes of Rophaien.

Demographics

Riemenstalden has a population (as of ) of . , 2.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 20%. All of the population () speaks German.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 31-Aug-2009 the gender distribution of the population was 57.6% male and 42.4% female. The age distribution, , in Riemenstalden is; 12 people or 20.3% of the population is between 0 and 19. 15 people or 25.4% are 20 to 39, and 18 people or 30.5% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 10 people or 16.9% are 65 to 74. There are 3 people or 5.1% who are 70 to 79 and 1 person or 1.69% of the population who is over 80.Canton Schwyz Statistics
accessed 27 August 2009 there are 24 households, of which 6 households (or about 25.0%) contain only a single individual. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 59.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (26.2%), the SPS (7.1%) and the FDP (6%). In Riemenstalden about 40% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). Riemenstalden has an unemployment rate of 0%. , there were 23 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. No one is employed in the

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. 11 people are employed in the

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, with 3 businesses in this sector. From the , 59 or 100.0% are

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. The historical population is given in the following table:

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Schwyz