Throughout the Middle Ages Filet was known as Gifrisch. It was first mentioned in 1374 as Gifris.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the villagecoat of arms is Divided by a Bar wavy Argent, chief Azure a Mullet of Five Argent and base Gules an Oxen head guardant having two grain ears Or in mouth.
Demographics
Filet has a population of 151. Most of the population speaks German as their first language, Dutch is the second most common and Serbo-Croatian is the third. There are 2 people who speak French. , the population was made up of 151 Swiss citizens and 21 non-citizen residents. Of the population in the village, 34 or about 22.4% were born in Filet and lived there in 2000. There were 68 or 44.7% who were born in the same canton, while 29 or 19.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 15 or 9.9% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 55 people who were single and never married in the village. There were 82 married individuals, 8 widows or widowers and 7 individuals who are divorced. There were 17 households that consist of only one person and 2 households with five or more people. , a total of 61 apartments were permanently occupied, while 40 apartments were seasonally occupied and 9 apartments were empty. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray id:darkgrey value:gray ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:160 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:30 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:6 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark: align:center bar:1850 from:start till:100 text:"100" bar:1860 from:start till:138 text:"138" bar:1870 from:start till:111 text:"111" bar:1880 from:start till:129 text:"129" bar:1888 from:start till:134 text:"134" bar:1900 from:start till:120 text:"120" bar:1910 from:start till:140 text:"140" bar:1920 from:start till:120 text:"120" bar:1930 from:start till:120 text:"120" bar:1941 from:start till:116 text:"116" bar:1950 from:start till:108 text:"108" bar:1960 from:start till:121 text:"121" bar:1970 from:start till:99 text:"99" bar:1980 from:start till:85 text:"85" bar:1990 from:start till:127 text:"127" bar:2000 from:start till:152 text:"152"
There were 68 residents of the village who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 36.8% of the workforce. the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 33. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 2, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 14 of which 3 or were in manufacturing and 11 were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 17. In the tertiary sector; 13 or 76.5% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles and 3 or 17.6% were in a hotel or restaurant. , there were 21 workers who commuted into the village and 57 workers who commuted away. The village is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.7 workers leaving the village for every one entering.
In Filet about 61 or of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 15 or have completed additional higher education. Of the 15 who completed tertiary schooling, 53.3% were Swiss men, 20.0% were Swiss women. , there were 19 students from Filet who attended schools outside the village.
