Inkwil


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.

Geography

Inkwil has an area,, of. Of this area, or 49.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.1% is settled, or 1.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.9% is unproductive land.
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.
It is divided into three sections; Dorf, Vorstatt and Station.

Demographics

Inkwil has a population of., 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 speaks German , with Portuguese being second most common and Serbo-Croatian being third.
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, the FDP and the CSP.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers make up 26.6% of the population, while adults make up 58.4% and seniors make up 15%. About 82.2% of the population have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education.
Inkwil has an unemployment rate of 1.64%. , 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.
The historical population is given in the following table:
yearpopulation
1764154
1850420
1900442
1950507
2000654

Heritage sites of national significance

It is home to the Inkwilersee Insel prehistoric pile-dwelling settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.