Reisiwil is a municipality

Municipalities of Switzerland

Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...

 in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton

Cantons of Switzerland

The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...

 of Bern in Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

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Geography

Reisiswil has an area of 2 km² (0.77220431718507 sq mi). Of this area, 64.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 31% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0%) is non-productive (rivers or glaciers).

Demographics

Reisiswil has a population (as of ) of . , 2.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -14.1%. Most of the population speaks German (95.4%), with French being second most common ( 2.0%) and Albanian being third ( 1.0%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP

Swiss People's Party

The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...

 which received 66.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP

Free Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....

 (10.9%), the CSP

Christian Social Party (Switzerland)

The Christian Social Party is a political party in Switzerland. The CSP is more social democratic than the CVP. With the moderate Christian left as its background, the CSP commits itself to social democratic and environmentalist political solutions...

 (10.6%) and the Small right-wing parties (8%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 54.8% and the seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.3%. In Reisiswil about 73.9% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule

Fachhochschule

A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...

).

Reisiswil has an unemployment rate of 0.26%. , there were 37 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. No one is employed in the economic secondary sector. 17 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 5 businesses in this sector.