Stansstad is a

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in the

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Nidwalden Canton of Nidwalden or Nidwald ( ; ; ; ) is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven municipalities and the seat of the government and parliament is in Stans. It is traditionally considered a " half-canto ...

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Geography

Stansstad has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of . Of this area, about 32.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 49.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 15.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and 2.4% is unproductive land. In the 2004/09 survey a total of or about 8.8% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of over the 1981/82 amount. Over the same time period, the amount of recreational space in the municipality increased by and is now about 0.99% of the total area. Of the agricultural land, is used for orchards and vineyards and is fields and grasslands. Since 1981/82 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by . Rivers and lakes cover in the municipality.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Regional portraits
accessed 27 October 2016

Demographics

Stansstad has a population () of . , 15.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. In 2015 a small minority (234 or 5.3% of the population) was born in Germany. Over the last 4 years (2010-2014) the population has changed at a rate of -1.44%. The

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in the municipality, in 2014, was 9.1, while the

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was 8.0 per thousand residents. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 14.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) are 63.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 22.6%. In 2015 there were 1,800 single residents, 1,950 people who were married or in a civil partnership, 222 widows or widowers and 424 divorced residents. In 2014 there were 2,131 private households in Stansstad with an average household size of 2.03 persons. Of the 629 inhabited buildings in the municipality, in 2000, about 34.5% were single family homes and 39.6% were multiple family buildings. Additionally, about 13.7% of the buildings were built before 1919, while 14.8% were built between 1991 and 2000.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Thema 09 - Bau- und Wohnungswesen
accessed 5 May 2016 In 2013 the rate of construction of new housing units per 1000 residents was 1.36. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 2.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (90.1%), with Italian being second most common (2.1%) and Albanian being third (1.5%).
accessed 04-Sep-2009

Historical population

The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width: auto height:200 barincrement:45 PlotArea = top:20 left:40 bottom:20 right:35 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:5000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:1000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:250 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width: 35 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:778 text:"778" bar:1860 from:start till:752 text:"752" bar:1870 from:start till:755 text:"755" bar:1880 from:start till:760 text:"760" bar:1888 from:start till:836 text:"836" bar:1900 from:start till:851 text:"851" bar:1910 from:start till:925 text:"925" bar:1920 from:start till:859 text:"859" bar:1930 from:start till:1032 text:"1,032" bar:1941 from:start till:1174 text:"1,174" bar:1950 from:start till:1318 text:"1,318" bar:1960 from:start till:1738 text:"1,738" bar:1970 from:start till:2469 text:"2,469" bar:1980 from:start till:3104 text:"3,104" bar:1990 from:start till:3785 text:"3,785" bar:2000 from:start till:4325 text:"4,325" bar:2010 from:start till:4440 text:"4,440" bar:2014 from:start till:4381 text:"4,381"

Politics

In the 2015 federal election the most popular party was the SVP with 83.8% of the vote, followed by local parties with the remaining 16.2%. In the federal election, a total of 1,805 votes were cast, and the

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was 55.0%. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 88.6% of the vote. Most of the rest of the votes were given to local, small

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parties (10.8%).

Education

In Stansstad about 77.9% 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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'').

Economy

Stansstad is a high-income community. The municipality is part of the regional center of Stans. , there were a total of 2,163 people employed in the municipality. Of these, a total of 74 people worked in 26 businesses in the primary economic sector. The

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employed 525 workers in 63 separate businesses. A minority (26.1%) of the secondary sector employees worked in very small businesses. There were 10 small businesses with a total of 198 employees and two mid sized businesses with a total of 190 employees. Finally, the

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provided 1,564 jobs in 355 businesses. There were 20 small businesses with a total of 495 employees and two mid sized businesses with a total of 222 employees. In 2014 a total of 1.4% of the population received social assistance. In 2015 local hotels had a total of 19,501 overnight stays, of which 51.8% were international visitors.

Transport

Stansstad is served by Stansstad station on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, on which the

Lucerne S-Bahn The Lucerne S-Bahn () is an S-Bahn-style commuter rail network focusing on Lucerne in Central Switzerland. Opened on 12 December 2004, the network forms part of the Central Switzerland S-Bahn project (), which also includes the Zug Stadtbahn (). ...

S4 service provides two trains per hour. The village is also served by post bus services, including services to

Bürgenstock The Bürgenstock () is a mountain in Switzerland with an elevation of above sea level, situated beside Lake Lucerne. Since the late 19th century, the Bürgenstock is the site of a large hotel and conference centre, today known as Bürgenstock R ...

Stans Stans () is the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Nidwalden (Nidwald) in Switzerland. The official language of Stans is German language, German (spoken there in the variety of Swiss Standard German), but the main language is the ...

and Büren, and by shipping services of the

Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees The ''Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees'' or Lake Lucerne Navigation Company (commonly abbreviated to SGV) is a public Switzerland, Swiss company operating passenger ships and boats on Lake Lucerne. The company is based in the Luce ...

Lake Lucerne Lake Lucerne (, literally 'Lake of the four Waldstätte, forested settlements' (in English usually translated as ''forest cantons''), , ) is a lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country. Geography The lake has a compli ...

. Fürigenbahn was a

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that led from Harissenbucht to the hotel at Fürigen (1924-2005).

Sights

The main sights of Stansstad are a museum of the fortifications, a tower ('' Schnitzturm''), and the chapel ''Marie Linden'' in Kehrsiten.

Heritage sites of national significance

The prehistoric lakeside settlement at Kehrsiten and the Teller/Palisaden and Schnitzturm, all part of the medieval fortifications are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The prehistoric settlement is part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps a

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.UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps
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References

{{Authority control Municipalities of Nidwalden Populated places on Lake Lucerne