Siblingen is a

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in the canton of

Schaffhausen Schaffhausen (; gsw, Schafuuse; french: Schaffhouse; it, Sciaffusa; rm, Schaffusa; en, Shaffhouse) is a town with historic roots, a municipality in northern Switzerland, and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimat ...

in Switzerland.

Geography

Siblingen has an area, , of . Of this area, 44.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 48.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.4%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules a Pine Tree Vert trunked and eradicated proper.''

Demographics

Siblingen has a population () of 743, of which 9.8% are foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, (), 52.9% are from Germany, 8.6% are from Italy, and 38.6% are from another country.Statistical Office of the Canton of Schaffhausen
accessed 2 December 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -2.9%. Most of the population () speaks German (97.5%), with Spanish being second most common ( 1.0%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.8%).
accessed 22-December-2009 The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 18.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 65.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.4%. In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 42.2% of the vote. The next two most popular parties were the SP (33.9%), and the FDP (23.9%) . In Siblingen about 80.9% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory

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or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). In Siblingen, , 2.01% of the population attend

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or another pre-school, 6.29% attend a

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, 2.54% attend a lower level Secondary School, and 3.75% attend a higher level Secondary School. , 13.2% of the population belonged to the

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and 72.8% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...

. The historical population is given in the following table:

Economy

Siblingen has an unemployment rate, , of 1.02%. , there were 61 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 25 businesses involved in this sector. 37 people are employed in the

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and there are 12 businesses in this sector. 62 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 23 businesses in this sector. the mid year average unemployment rate was 1.2%. There were 31 non-agrarian businesses in the municipality and 47.1% of the (non-agrarian) population was involved in the secondary sector of the economy while 52.9% were involved in the third. At the same time, 70.2% of the working population was employed full-time, and 29.8% was employed part-time. There were 104 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 34.6% of the workforce. there were 109 residents who worked in the municipality, while 248 residents worked outside Siblingen and 38 people commuted into the municipality for work. , there are 2 restaurants, and 1 hotel with 15 beds. The hospitality industry in Siblingen employs 8 people.

Heritage sites of national significance

The early-

La Tène culture The La Tène culture (; ) was a European Iron Age culture. It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age (from about 450 BC to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC), succeeding the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any defi ...

era graveyard at ''Auf dem Stein'' is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance
21.11.2008 version, accessed 22-Dec-2009

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Schaffhausen Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Schaffhausen