Sternenberg is a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of Pfäffikon in the

canton Canton may refer to: Administrative division terminology * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and ent ...

Zürich Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

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and Sternenberg merged to ''Bauma'' on 1 January 2015.

Geography

Before the merger, Sternenberg had a total area of . Of this area, 37.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 58% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 2.3% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (1.5%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0% of the area. 0.9% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.

Demographics

Sternenberg had a population (as of 2013) of 351.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 13 January 2015 , 4.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51.3% male and 48.7% female. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -1.4%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.0%), with French being second most common ( 0.3%) and English being third ( 0.3%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 43.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the

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(22.5%), the CSP (15.7%) and the

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(10.2%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.2%. In Sternenberg about 76.5% 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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''). There are 140 households in Sternenberg. Sternenberg has an unemployment rate of 1.8%. , there were 48 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 22 businesses involved in this sector. 33 people are employed in the

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and there are 9 businesses in this sector. 46 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 11 businesses in this sector. 41% of the working population were employed full-time, and 59% were employed part-time.Statistics Zurich
accessed 4 August 2009 there were 59

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and 206

Protestants Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

in Sternenberg. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 65.6% were some type of Protestant, with 62.2% belonging 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 ...

and 3.4% belonging to other Protestant churches. 13.5% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 2% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.6% did not give a religion, and 16% were atheist or agnostic.

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* {{Authority control Former municipalities of the canton of Zürich