Hubersdorf

Hubersdorf is first mentioned in 1374 as Huopolstron. ==Geography==

Hubersdorf has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 30.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 12.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 26.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 30.1% is used for growing crops and 22.8% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Lebern district, in a small depression near the Siggern river in the Jura Mountains. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules in dexter a Mullet pommed Or and in sinister a Paring Knife Sable palewise. ==Demographics==

Hubersdorf has a population () of . , 6.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 3%. Most of the population () speaks German (651 or 98.0%), with French being second most common (4 or 0.6%) and Albanian being third (3 or 0.5%). Of the population in the municipality 198 or about 29.8% were born in Hubersdorf and lived there in 2000. There were 253 or 38.1% who were born in the same canton, while 165 or 24.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 37 or 5.6% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 279 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 329 married individuals, 29 widows or widowers and 27 individuals who are divorced. , there were 238 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household. there were 248 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 92. There were 9 single room apartments and 156 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 236 apartments (95.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5 apartments (2.0%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (2.8%) were empty. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:670 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1798 from:start till:128 text:"128" bar:1850 from:start till:201 text:"201" bar:1860 from:start till:195 text:"195" bar:1870 from:start till:167 text:"167" bar:1880 from:start till:180 text:"180" bar:1888 from:start till:242 text:"242" bar:1900 from:start till:223 text:"223" bar:1910 from:start till:197 text:"197" bar:1920 from:start till:263 text:"263" bar:1930 from:start till:281 text:"281" bar:1941 from:start till:265 text:"265" bar:1950 from:start till:316 text:"316" bar:1960 from:start till:402 text:"402" bar:1970 from:start till:468 text:"468" bar:1980 from:start till:477 text:"477" bar:1990 from:start till:567 text:"567" bar:2000 from:start till:664 text:"664" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 27.02% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (22.67%), the SVP (20.72%) and the SP (17.74%). In the federal election, a total of 252 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.1%. ==Economy==

, Hubersdorf had an unemployment rate of 1.9%. , there were 12 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 24 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 61 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 14 businesses in this sector. , there were 32 workers who commuted into the municipality and 314 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 9.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 12% used public transportation to get to work, and 70.2% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 309 or 46.5% were Roman Catholic, while 228 or 34.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 individuals (or about 0.45% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 11 individuals (or about 1.66% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 7 (or about 1.05% of the population) who were Islamic. 94 (or about 14.16% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 12 individuals (or about 1.81% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Hubersdorf about 293 or (44.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 73 or (11.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 73 who completed tertiary schooling, 89.0% were Swiss men, 8.2% were Swiss women. During that school year, there were 20 children in kindergarten. The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In the municipality there were 53 students in primary school. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. All the lower secondary students from Hubersdorf attend their school in a neighboring municipality. , there were 122 students in Hubersdorf who came from another municipality, while 36 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==