Wiler

Wiler has an area, , of . Of this area, or 19.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 23.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and or 54.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.9%. Out of the forested land, 19.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0% is used for growing crops, 5.2% is pastures and 14.1% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 13.6% is unproductive vegetation, 36.5% is too rocky for vegetation and 4.2% of the land is covered by glaciers. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, four Cynorrhodon Flowers Gules conjoined Or surrounded by a Garland and in base Coupeaux Vert. ==Demographics==

Wiler has a population () of . , 5.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010), the population has changed at a rate of 9.3%. It has changed at a rate of 2% due to migration and at a rate of 8.3% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks German (479 or 98.2%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (4 or 0.8%) and Danish is the third (3 or 0.6%). , there were 175 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household. , the construction rate of new housing units was 16.3 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:490 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:1850 from:start till:181 text:"181" bar:1860 from:start till:221 text:"221" bar:1870 from:start till:223 text:"223" bar:1880 from:start till:233 text:"233" bar:1888 from:start till:225 text:"225" bar:1900 from:start till:228 text:"228" bar:1910 from:start till:272 text:"272" bar:1920 from:start till:291 text:"291" bar:1930 from:start till:287 text:"287" bar:1941 from:start till:305 text:"305" bar:1950 from:start till:338 text:"338" bar:1960 from:start till:357 text:"357" bar:1970 from:start till:410 text:"410" bar:1980 from:start till:420 text:"420" bar:1990 from:start till:428 text:"428" bar:2000 from:start till:488 text:"488" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election, the most popular party was the CVP which received 71.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (16.64%), the Green Party (5.29%) and the SP (4.16%). In the federal election, a total of 206 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 52.0%. ==Economy==

, Wiler had an unemployment rate of 1.3%. , there were 54 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 19 businesses involved in this sector. 28 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 8 businesses in this sector. 113 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 28 businesses in this sector. , there were 46 workers who commuted into the municipality and 141 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 23.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 42.4% used a private car. ==Transport==

Wiler lies on the road up the Lötschental valley from Steg and Goppenstein. The road passes through Wiler village and reaches its end at Fafleralp. A PostAuto bus service runs along the road, connecting the municipality to Goppenstein railway station, with some buses continuing to Steg. ==Religion==

From the , 472 or 96.7% were Roman Catholic, while 13 or 2.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. 1 (or about 0.20% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 2 individuals (or about 0.41% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Wiler about 216 or (44.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 26 or (5.3%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 26 who completed tertiary schooling, 88.5% were Swiss men, 11.5% were Swiss women. , there were 10 students in Wiler who came from another municipality, while 22 residents attended schools outside the municipality. == References ==