Wallenried

Wallenried had an area of . Of this area, or 61.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 21.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.3% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 12.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 40.7% is used for growing crops and 19.2% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent three Bends sinister wavy Azure and overall a Bend Gules. ==Demographics==

Wallenried had a population () of 447. , 8.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 30.6%. Migration accounted for 26.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 6.3%. Most of the population () speaks French (168 or 53.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (137 or 43.6%) and Italian is the third (2 or 0.6%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality, 101 or about 32.2% were born in Wallenried and lived there in 2000. There were 119 or 37.9% who were born in the same canton, while 67 or 21.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 21 or 6.7% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 113 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. , the construction rate of new housing units was 9.2 new units per 1000 residents. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:320 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:60 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:12 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:229 text:"229" bar:1860 from:start till:270 text:"270" bar:1870 from:start till:250 text:"250" bar:1880 from:start till:274 text:"274" bar:1888 from:start till:299 text:"299" bar:1900 from:start till:270 text:"270" bar:1910 from:start till:299 text:"299" bar:1920 from:start till:300 text:"300" bar:1930 from:start till:257 text:"257" bar:1941 from:start till:265 text:"265" bar:1950 from:start till:266 text:"266" bar:1960 from:start till:261 text:"261" bar:1970 from:start till:241 text:"241" bar:1980 from:start till:244 text:"244" bar:1990 from:start till:310 text:"310" bar:2000 from:start till:314 text:"314" ==Politics==

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 29.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (27.2%), the CVP (14.2%) and the FDP (10.9%). The SVP lost about 5.4% of the vote when compared to the 2007 Federal election (35.2% in 2007 vs 29.8% in 2011). The SPS gained popularity (21.7% in 2007), the CVP lost popularity (20.1% in 2007) and the FDP retained about the same popularity (9.8% in 2007). A total of 156 votes were cast in this election, of which 3 or 1.9% were invalid. ==Economy==

, Wallenried had an unemployment rate of 1.8%. , there were 35 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 5 people were employed in the secondary sector and there was 1 business in this sector. 31 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 4 businesses in this sector. , there were 21 workers who commuted into the municipality and 129 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 6.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 8.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 63.1% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 185 or 58.9% were Roman Catholic, while 91 or 29.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church, and there were 18 individuals (or about 5.73% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 person who was Buddhist. 20 (or about 6.37% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 7 individuals (or about 2.23% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Wallenried about 125 or (39.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 43 or (13.7%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 43 who completed tertiary schooling, 65.1% were Swiss men, 20.9% were Swiss women. During the 2010-11 school year, there were no students attending school in Wallenried, but a total of 88 students attended school in other municipalities. Of these students, 13 were in kindergarten, 36 were in a primary school, 18 were in a mandatory secondary school, 9 were in an upper secondary school and 8 were in a vocational secondary program. There were a total of 4 tertiary students from Wallenried. , there were 2 students in Wallenried who came from another municipality, while 50 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==