Inkwil

Municipality in Bern, Switzerland

Location of Inkwil

47°12′N 7°40′E / 47.200°N 7.667°E / 47.200; 7.667CountrySwitzerlandCantonBernDistrictOberaargauArea

^[1]

• Total3.4 km² (1.3 sq mi)Elevation

464 m (1,522 ft)Population

(31 December 2018)^[2]

• Total624 • Density180/km² (480/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (Central European Time) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)Postal code(s)

3375

SFOS number0980ISO 3166 codeCH-BESurrounded byBolken (SO), Niederönz, Röthenbach bei Herzogenbuchsee, Subingen (SO), WangenriedWebsitewww.inkwil.ch
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Inkwil is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

History

Inkwil is first mentioned in 1262 as Inchwile.^[3]

Geography

Inkwil has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 3.36 km² (1.30 sq mi). Of this area, 1.65 km² (0.64 sq mi) or 49.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.21 km² (0.47 sq mi) or 36.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.44 km² (0.17 sq mi) or 13.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.05 km² (12 acres) or 1.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.03 km² (7.4 acres) or 0.9% is unproductive land.^[4]

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.7%. 35.1% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 37.5% is used for growing crops and 8.9% is pastures, while 2.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.^[4]

It is divided into three sections; Dorf, Vorstatt and Station.

Demographics

Inkwil has a population (as of 31 December 2020) of 628.^[5] As of 2007^[update], 4.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -2.4%. Most of the population (as of 2000^[update]) speaks German (98.0%), with Portuguese being second most common ( 0.5%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.5%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 36.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (29.8%), the FDP (13.7%) and the CSP (5.4%).

The age distribution of the population (as of 2000^[update]) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15%. About 82.2% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).

Inkwil has an unemployment rate of 1.64%. As of 2005^[update], there were 20 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 69 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 6 businesses in this sector. 20 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 10 businesses in this sector.^[6] The historical population is given in the following table:^[3]

year	population
1764	154
1850	420
1900	442
1950	507
2000	654

Heritage sites of national significance

It is home to the Inkwilersee Insel prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
^ "Ständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeitskategorie Geschlecht und Gemeinde; Provisorische Jahresergebnisse; 2018". Federal Statistical Office. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
^ ^a ^b Inkwil in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
^ ^a ^b Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data (in German) accessed 25 March 2010
^ "Ständige und nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geburtsort und Staatsangehörigkeit". bfs.admin.ch (in German). Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
^ Swiss Federal Statistical Office Archived 2016-01-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed 21-Jul-2009
^ UNESCO World Heritage Site - Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps