Rumisberg is a

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in the Oberaargau administrative district in the

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of Bern in Switzerland.

History

Rumisberg is first mentioned in 1364 as ''Rumolsberg''.

Geography

Rumisberg has an area of . Of this area, 49.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality includes the village of Rumisberg, the

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a lar ...

of Schoren and Weissacker-Falken and scattered individual houses. It is located on several terraces scattered along the southern slope of the

Jura mountains The Jura Mountains ( , , , ; french: Massif du Jura; german: Juragebirge; it, Massiccio del Giura, rm, Montagnas da Jura) are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the Fre ...

, ranging in altitude from above sea level.

Demographics

Rumisberg has a population (as of ) of . , 3.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 11.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.5%), with Italian being second most common ( 0.4%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.4%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 52.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (14.8%), the FDP (14.5%) and the

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundati ...

(10.1%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.9%. In Rumisberg about 78.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory

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or additional higher education (either university or a ''

Fachhochschule A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied ar ...

''). Rumisberg has an unemployment rate of 1.19%. , there were 23 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. 8 people are employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructio ...

and there are 4 businesses in this sector. 24 people are employed in the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector ( raw materials) and the secon ...

, with 8 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 22-Jul-2009 The historical population is given in the following table:

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Bern