Recherswil

Recherswil is first mentioned in 1278 as Richirswile. ==Geography==

site in Recherswil Recherswil has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.1%. Out of the forested land, 20.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 43.6% is used for growing crops and 9.2% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Wasseramt district, between the Emme and Oesch rivers. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Ploughshare Sable between two Mullets Or in chief. ==Demographics==

Recherswil has a population () of . , 8.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 1.4%. It has changed at a rate of 0.5% due to migration and at a rate of -0.2% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks German (1,518 or 95.7%), with Italian being second most common (34 or 2.1%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (9 or 0.6%). There are 3 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 452 or about 28.5% were born in Recherswil and lived there in 2000. There were 468 or 29.5% who were born in the same canton, while 480 or 30.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 141 or 8.9% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 592 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 816 married individuals, 90 widows or widowers and 88 individuals who are divorced. , there were 641 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. there were 658 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 199. There were 8 single room apartments and 310 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 627 apartments (95.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 11 apartments (1.7%) were seasonally occupied and 20 apartments (3.0%) 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:1600 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:300 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:60 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1798 from:start till:243 text:"243" bar:1850 from:start till:404 text:"404" bar:1860 from:start till:441 text:"441" bar:1870 from:start till:487 text:"487" bar:1880 from:start till:555 text:"555" bar:1888 from:start till:541 text:"541" bar:1900 from:start till:864 text:"864" bar:1910 from:start till:830 text:"830" bar:1920 from:start till:848 text:"848" bar:1930 from:start till:921 text:"921" bar:1941 from:start till:881 text:"881" bar:1950 from:start till:989 text:"989" bar:1960 from:start till:1220 text:"1,220" bar:1970 from:start till:1280 text:"1,280" bar:1980 from:start till:1372 text:"1,372" bar:1990 from:start till:1551 text:"1,551" bar:2000 from:start till:1586 text:"1,586" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 27.33% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (27.09%), the CVP (18.58%) and the FDP (15.95%). In the federal election, a total of 643 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.5%. ==Economy==

, Recherswil had an unemployment rate of 2.6%. , there were 40 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 101 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 26 businesses in this sector. 134 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 38 businesses in this sector. , there were 151 workers who commuted into the municipality and 702 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 13.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 63.5% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 522 or 32.9% were Roman Catholic, while 690 or 43.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 8 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.50% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 37 individuals (or about 2.33% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 31 (or about 1.95% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 255 (or about 16.08% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 39 individuals (or about 2.46% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Recherswil about 664 or (41.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 155 or (9.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 155 who completed tertiary schooling, 79.4% were Swiss men, 15.5% were Swiss women, 4.5% were non-Swiss men. , there were 21 students in Recherswil who came from another municipality, while 111 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==