Untersteckholz was a

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in the district of

Aarwangen Aarwangen is a village and a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. History Aarwangen is first mentioned in 1255 as ''villa Arwangen''. Aarwangen grew from a fortified toll crossing over th ...

in the canton of

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. On 1 January 2010, Untersteckholz merged into

Langenthal Langenthal is a town and a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Oberaargau (administrative district), Oberaargau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Untersteckholz merged into the ...

Geography

Before the merger, Untersteckholz had an area, , of . This area uses or 73.9% for agricultural purposes, while or 20.8% is forested. Of the remaining land, or 5.7% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Housing and buildings comprised 2.1% of the built-up area, and transportation infrastructure comprised 3.2%. 17.7% of the land area is heavily forested, and 3.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 56.5% is used for growing crops and 14.1% is pastures, while 3.2% is used for orchards or vine crops.

Demographics

Untersteckholz has a population of (as of 31 December 2020). , 1.2% of the population comprised foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years, the population has grown at a rate of 5.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (97.6%), with Rhaeto-romance being the second most common (0.6%) and Russian being third (0.6%). In the 2007 election, the most popular party was the SVP, which received 65.3% of the vote. The following three most popular parties were the FDP (11.3%), the

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(11.1%) and the local small left-wing parties (5.9%). The age distribution of the population () is that children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 18.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.7%, and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.8%. In Untersteckholz, about 79.7% of the population (between the ages of 25 and 64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either a University or a ''

Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...

''). Untersteckholz has an unemployment rate of 0.17%. , 58 people were employed in the primary economic sector, and about 14 businesses were involved in this sector. 16 people are employed in the

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, and there are 5 businesses in this sector. 11 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 ...

, with 2 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 29-May-2009

References

{{Authority control Former municipalities of the canton of Bern Populated places disestablished in 2010