Val Terbi () 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
Delémont
Delémont (; ; , ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Jura. The city has approximately 12,000 inhabitants .
History
The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn burials have been discovered in the ...
in the
canton of
Jura in
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
. The municipalities of
Montsevelier,
Vermes
Vermes ("vermin/vermes") is an obsolete taxon used by Carl Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for non-arthropod invertebrate animals.
Linnaeus
In Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae'', the Vermes had the rank of class (biology), class, occupying th ...
and
Vicques merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Val Terbi.
[Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 2 January 2013 On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of
Corban merged into the municipality of Val Terbi.
History
Montsevelier is first mentioned in 1136 as ''Muzivilir''. The municipality was formerly known by its German name ''Mutzwil'', however, that name is no longer used
Vermes is first mentioned in 866 as ''Vertima''. In 1308 it was mentioned as ''Vermunt''.
Vicques is first mentioned in 866 as ''Vicum''.
Geography
Val Terbi has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of . Of this area, about 43.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 51.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.6% is unproductive land. In the 2013/18 survey a total of or about 3.4% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of over the 1982 amount. Of the agricultural land, is used for orchards and vineyards, is fields and grasslands and consists of alpine grazing areas. Since 1982 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by . Over the same time period the amount of forested land has decreased by . Rivers and lakes cover in the municipality.
[Regionalporträts 2017: Swiss Federal Statistical Office]
accessed 18 May 2017
The municipality of
Corban chose to merge into Val Terbi on 1 January 2018.
Demographics
Val Terbi has a population () of . , 7.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 5 years (2010-2015) the population has changed at a rate of 2.62%. The
birth rate
Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live childbirth, human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years. The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registr ...
in the municipality, in 2015, was 7.2, while the
death rate
Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of d ...
was 8.0 per thousand residents.
[
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) are 58.3% of the population and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.7%.][ In 2015 there were 1,115 single residents, 1,186 people who were married or in a civil partnership, 148 widows or widowers and 177 divorced residents.
In 2015 there were 1,029 private households in Val Terbi with an average household size of 2.53 persons. In 2015 about 68.4% of all buildings in the municipality were single family homes, which is about the same as the percentage in the canton (66.9%) and greater than the percentage nationally (57.4%). In 2014 the rate of construction of new housing units per 1000 residents was 2.65. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.72%.][
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Historic Population
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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Sights
The entire village of Corban is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
The Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS) is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage.
Sites of national importance
Types
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Economy
Val Terbi is classed as a mixed agro-industrial community, a municipality where agriculture and manufacturing play a significant role in the economy. The municipality is part of the agglomeration
Agglomeration may refer to:
* Urban agglomeration, in standard English
* Megalopolis, in Chinese English, as defined in China's ''Standard for basic terminology of urban planning'' (GB/T 50280—98). Also known as "city cluster".
* Economies of agg ...
of Delémont.
, there were a total of 883 people employed in the municipality. Of these, a total of 140 people worked in 49 businesses in the primary economic sector. The secondary sector
In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...
employed 297 workers in 45 separate businesses of which there were 4 small businesses with a total of 85 employees and one mid sized business also with 85 employees. Finally, 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 ...
provided 446 jobs in 106 businesses.
In 2015 a total of 2.7% of the population received social assistance.[
In 2015 the average cantonal, municipal and church tax rate in the municipality for a couple with two children making was 6.4% while the rate for a single person making was 21.2%. The canton has a slightly higher than average tax rate for those making and a slightly higher than average rate for those making . In 2013 the average income in the municipality per tax payer was and the per person average was , which is less than the cantonal average of and respectively It is also less than the national per tax payer average of and the per person average of .
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Politics
In the 2015 federal election the most popular party was the SP with 24.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (23.6%), the CSP (17.1%) and the SVP (17.1%). In the federal election, a total of 936 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 is typically either the percentage of Voter registration, registered voters, Suffrage, eligible voters, or all Voti ...
was 47.5%.
Crime
In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the Swiss Criminal Code
The Swiss Criminal Code (SR/RS 311, , , , ) is a portion of the third part (SR/RS 3) of the Swiss law, internal Swiss law ("Private law - Administration of civil justice - Enforcement") that regulates the criminal code in Switzerland. The orig ...
(running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Val Terbi was 31.3 per thousand residents. This rate is only 62.4% of the cantonal rate and 48.5% of the average rate in the entire country. During the same period no crimes or violations of immigration, visa or work permit laws have been perpetrated.Statistical Atlas of Switzerland
accessed 5 April 2016
References
External links
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Municipalities of the canton of Jura