Staldenried is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
in the district of
Visp
Visp (french: Viège) is the capital of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Geography
Visp lies in the Rhône valley, at the confluence of the Vispa and the Rhône, west of Brig-Glis.
Visp has an area, , of . ...
in the
canton of
Valais
Valais ( , , ; frp, Valês; german: Wallis ), more formally the Canton of Valais,; german: Kanton Wallis; in other official Swiss languages outside Valais: it, (Canton) Vallese ; rm, (Chantun) Vallais. is one of the 26 cantons forming the S ...
in
Switzerland.
History
Staldenried is first mentioned in 1389 as ''am ryede''. In 1638 it was mentioned as ''Stalden Riedt''.
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Geography
Staldenried has an area, , of . Of this area, 23.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and 31.7% is unproductive land.[
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Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Argent, a Pine tree Vert trunked and eradicated proper between two Trefoils of the second.''
Demographics
Staldenried has a population () of . , 1.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981–2008]
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 2%. It has changed at a rate of 3.9% due to migration and at a rate of 1.8% due to births and deaths.
accessed 3 October 2011
Most of the population () speaks German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
(549 or 99.1%) as their first language, French is the second most common (1 or 0.2%) and Romansh is the third (1 or 0.2%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian
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, the population was 52.7% male and 47.3% female. The population was made up of 284 Swiss men (46.8% of the population) and 36 (5.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 284 Swiss women (46.8%) and 3 (0.5%) non-Swiss women.][Ständige Wohnbevolkerung nach Geschlecht und Heimat am 31.12.2009.xls]
accessed 24 August 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 436 or about 78.7% were born in Staldenried and lived there in 2000. There were 85 or 15.3% who were born in the same canton, while 19 or 3.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 6 or 1.1% were born outside of Switzerland.[
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12.3%.][
, there were 232 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 276 married individuals, 38 widows or widowers and 8 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 202 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.[ There were 48 households that consist of only one person and 29 households with five or more people. , a total of 198 apartments (50.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 161 apartments (41.3%) were seasonally occupied and 31 apartments (7.9%) were empty.][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.3 new units per 1000 residents.[ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.47%.][
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the CVP which received 77.86% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (11.39%), the SVP (8.62%) and the FDP (1.3%). In the federal election, a total of 317 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This can be the percentage of registered voters, eligible voters, or all voting-age people. According to Stanford Univ ...
was 71.4%.
In the 2009 Conseil d'État/Staatsrat election a total of 340 votes were cast, of which 10 or about 2.9% were invalid. The voter participation was 76.9%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 317 votes were cast, of which 2 or about 0.6% were invalid. The voter participation was 72.1%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 59.88%.
Economy
, Staldenried had an unemployment rate of 1.2%. , there were 42 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 22 businesses involved in this sector. 4 people were employed in the secondary sector
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and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 41 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 12 businesses in this sector.[
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 47. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 14, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 4 of which 3 or (75.0%) were in manufacturing and 1 was in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 29. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 6.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 7 or 24.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 9 or 31.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 6.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 17.2% were in education.
, there were 2 workers who commuted into the municipality and 203 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 101.5 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 39.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 45.4% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 536 or 96.8% were Roman Catholic
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*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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, while 5 or 0.9% 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 ...
. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist
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. 5 (or about 0.90% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 5 individuals (or about 0.90% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Staldenried about 213 or (38.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education
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, and 29 or (5.2%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 29 who completed tertiary schooling, 82.8% were Swiss men, 10.3% were Swiss women.[
During the 2010–2011 school year there were a total of 54 students in the Staldenried school system. The education system in the Canton of Valais allows young children to attend one year of non-obligatory ]Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cent ...
. During that school year, there was one kindergarten class (KG1 or KG2) and 12 kindergarten students. The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
. In Staldenried there were a total of 4 classes and 54 students in the primary school. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling (orientation classes), followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. All the lower and upper secondary students from Staldenried attend their school in a neighboring municipality.Obligatorische Schulzeit
accessed 24 August 2011
, there were 3 students in Staldenried who came from another municipality, while 26 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
External links
Official website
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Municipalities of Valais