Niederbuchsiten

Niederbuchsiten is first mentioned in 1040 as vico Buxita. In 1299 it was mentioned as Nidrabuchsiten. ==Geography==

Niederbuchsiten has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 35.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.1% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 45.4% is used for growing crops and 7.1% is pastures, while 2.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Gäu district, along the banks of the Dünnern. It is located at an elevation of , south of Oberbuchsiten and the A1 motorway. It consists of the linear village of Niederbuchsiten. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure on a Book Or bound Gules three Apples of the second. ==Demographics==

Niederbuchsiten has a population () of . , 7.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 3.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (904 or 95.5%), with Turkish being second most common (14 or 1.5%) and Italian being third (6 or 0.6%). There is 1 person who speaks French. Of the population in the municipality 388 or about 41.0% were born in Niederbuchsiten and lived there in 2000. There were 245 or 25.9% who were born in the same canton, while 191 or 20.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 81 or 8.6% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 398 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 443 married individuals, 59 widows or widowers and 47 individuals who are divorced. , there were 359 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. there were 388 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 116. There were 5 single room apartments and 146 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 348 apartments (89.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 22 apartments (5.7%) were seasonally occupied and 18 apartments (4.6%) were empty. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1080 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:950 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:200 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:40 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1798 from:start till:279 text:"279" bar:1837 from:start till:355 text:"355" bar:1850 from:start till:405 text:"405" bar:1860 from:start till:380 text:"380" bar:1870 from:start till:375 text:"375" bar:1880 from:start till:388 text:"388" bar:1888 from:start till:385 text:"385" bar:1900 from:start till:438 text:"438" bar:1910 from:start till:460 text:"460" bar:1920 from:start till:458 text:"458" bar:1930 from:start till:469 text:"469" bar:1941 from:start till:492 text:"492" bar:1950 from:start till:549 text:"549" bar:1960 from:start till:573 text:"573" bar:1970 from:start till:649 text:"649" bar:1980 from:start till:662 text:"662" bar:1990 from:start till:788 text:"788" bar:2000 from:start till:947 text:"947" ==Sights==

The entire village of Niederbuchsiten is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 34.21% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (33.37%), the FDP (20.94%) and the SP (7.03%). In the federal election, a total of 384 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 52.4%. ==Economy==

The head office of JURA Elektroapparate AG is located in Niederbuchsiten. , Niederbuchsiten had an unemployment rate of 1.8%. , there were 60 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 21 businesses involved in this sector. 75 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 7 businesses in this sector. 509 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 26 businesses in this sector. , there were 356 workers who commuted into the municipality and 383 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 11.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.5% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 588 or 62.1% were Roman Catholic, while 152 or 16.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.21% of the population), there were 3 individuals (or about 0.32% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 9 individuals (or about 0.95% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 54 (or about 5.70% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist, 4 individuals who were Hindu and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 98 (or about 10.35% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 35 individuals (or about 3.70% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Niederbuchsiten about 366 or (38.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 61 or (6.4%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 61 who completed tertiary schooling, 70.5% were Swiss men, 23.0% 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 68 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 Niederbuchsiten attend their school in a neighboring municipality. , there were 8 students in Niederbuchsiten who came from another municipality, while 52 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==