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'''Unterlangenegg''' is a [[Municipalities of Switzerland|municipality]] in the administrative district of [[Thun (administrative district)|Thun]] in the [[Cantons of Switzerland|canton]] of [[Bern (canton)|Bern]] in [[Switzerland]].
'''Unterlangenegg''' is a [[Municipalities of Switzerland|municipality]] in the administrative district of [[Thun (administrative district)|Thun]] in the [[Cantons of Switzerland|canton]] of [[Bern (canton)|Bern]] in [[Switzerland]].

==History==
Unterlangenegg is first mentioned in 1308 as ''Langonegga''.<ref name=HDS/>

During the [[Middle Ages]] the land and scattered farms were part of the ''[[Herrschaft (territory)|Herrschaft]]'' of [[Heimberg, Switzerland|Heimberg]]. By the 13th century, the [[Counts of Kyburg]] owned the ''Herrschaft''. On 11 November 1382, Rudolf II of Kyburg attempted an unsuccessful raid on [[Solothurn]]. The attack started the [[Burgdorferkrieg]] with the [[Old Swiss Confederacy]]. During the war, [[Bern]] captured many of the Kyburg lands and forced them to make an unfavorable peace. As part of the peace treaty, in 1384 Bern acquired Heimberg lands including Unterlangenegg. It was assigned to the Bernese Steffisburg court in the [[Thun District]].<ref name=HDS/>

The municipality was originally part of the [[parish]] of Steffisburg. In the 17th century [[Anabaptist]]s began settling in the Zulg valley. Their faith threatened the [[Swiss Reformed Church|Swiss Reformed]] faith of Bern, so in 1693 they built a large [[parish church]] in the village of Schwarzenegg and spread the new parish over the valley.<ref>{{HDS|8359|Schwarzenegg}}</ref> The church helped Schwarzenegg grow into a local center, however it never became a municipality and today is divided between Unterlangenegg and [[Oberlangenegg]].<ref name=HDS/>

In 1950 a secondary school was built in the municipality which provides an education for students from five surrounding municipalities.


==Geography==
==Geography==
Unterlangenegg has an area of {{convert|6.8|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}. Of this area, 71.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 18.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 8.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).<ref name=SFSO/>
Unterlangenegg has an area of {{Swiss area|0945|mi=on}}.{{Swiss area data|0945|QUELLE}}<!--6.81 - 6.81 km2--> As of the 2004/06 survey, a total of {{convert|4.81|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} or 70.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while {{convert|1.34|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} or 19.7% is forested. Of rest of the municipality {{convert|0.59|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} or 8.7% is settled (buildings or roads), {{convert|0.05|km2|acre|abbr=on}} or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and {{convert|0.02|km2|acre|abbr=on}} or 0.3% is unproductive land.<ref name=BFS_land>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/02/03/blank/data/gemeindedaten.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics] 2009 data {{de icon}} accessed 27 August 2014</ref>

From the same survey, housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. A total of 18.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 30.8% is used for growing crops and 36.9% is pasturage, while 2.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.<ref name=BFS_land/>

The municipality is located in the hills between the Zulg and Rotachen valleys. It consists of several scattered settlements and lacks a distinct village center. The municipality is made up of half of the village of Schwarzenegg (shared with Oberlangenegg), the [[hamlet (place)|hamlets]] of Kreuzweg, Bach, Zulgport and Allmend as well as scattered farm houses.

On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Thun, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Thun.<ref name=Mutation>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/nomenklaturen/blank/blank/gem_liste/02.html Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz] {{de icon}} accessed 4 April 2011</ref>

==Coat of arms==
The [[blazon]] of the municipal [[coat of arms]] is ''Quartered Sable a Castle Argent dimidiated and of the last a Firt Tree Vert trunked and eradicated Gules.''<ref>[http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ch-be362.html Flags of the World.com] accessed 14 October 2014</ref>


==Demographics==
==Demographics==
Unterlangenegg has a population (as of {{Swiss populations date|CH-BE}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-BE|0945}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-BE}} {{as of|2007}}, 1.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -8.9%. Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks German (98.0%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 0.5%) and Arabic being third ( 0.4%).
Unterlangenegg has a population ({{as of|{{Swiss populations YM|CH-BE}}|lc=on}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-BE|0945}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-BE}} {{as of|2012}}, 1.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of 3.5%. Migration accounted for 4.2%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.6%.<ref name=SFSO>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] accessed 14 October 2014</ref>

Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks [[German language|German]] (908 or 98.0%) as their first language, [[Serbo-Croatian]] is the second most common (5 or 0.5%) and [[Arabic language|Arabic]] is the third (4 or 0.4%). There are 2 people who speak [[French language|French]] and 1 person who speaks [[Italian language|Italian]].<ref name=STAT2000/>

{{as of|2013}}, the population was 49.0% male and 51.0% female. The population was made up of 441 Swiss men (47.9% of the population) and 10 (1.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 459 Swiss women (49.9%) and 10 (1.1%) non-Swiss women.<ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/02/blank/key/bevoelkerungsstand/02.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Ständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeit, Geschlecht und Gemeinde] accessed 7 October 2014</ref> Of the population in the municipality, 391 or about 42.2% were born in Unterlangenegg and lived there in 2000. There were 393 or 42.4% who were born in the same canton, while 76 or 8.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 34 or 3.7% were born outside of Switzerland.<ref name=STAT2000/>

{{as of|2012}}, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 21.8% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 60.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.9%.<ref name=SFSO/>

{{as of|2000}}, there were 419 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 420 married individuals, 59 widows or widowers and 29 individuals who are divorced.<ref name=STAT2000>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.3%20-%202000/40.3%20-%202000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=3&openChild=true STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000] {{de icon}} accessed 2 February 2011 </ref>

{{as of|2010}}, there were 98 households that consist of only one person and 28 households with five or more people.<ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/04/blank/key/haushaltsgroesse.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Haushaltsgrösse] {{de icon}} accessed 8 May 2013</ref> {{as of|2000|alt=In 2000}}, a total of 329 apartments (88.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 30 apartments (8.1%) were seasonally occupied and 11 apartments (3.0%) were empty.<ref name=Housing>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_09%20-%20Bau-%20und%20Wohnungswesen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen.asp?lang=1&prod=09&secprod=2&openChild=true Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen] {{de icon}} accessed 28 January 2011</ref> {{as of|2012}}, the construction rate of new housing units was 11.9 new units per 1000 residents.<ref name=SFSO/> In 2012, single family homes made up 32.5% of the total housing in the municipality.<ref>[http://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch Statistischer Atlas der Schweiz - Anteil Einfamilienhäuser am gesamten Gebäudebestand, 2012] accessed 5 August 2014</ref>

The historical population is given in the following chart:<ref name=HDS>{{HDS|544|Unterlangenegg}}</ref><ref>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.4%20-%201850-2000/40.4%20-%201850-2000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=4&openChild=true Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach Region, 1850-2000] {{de icon}} accessed 29 January 2011</ref><ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/news/04/01.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Ständige Wohnbevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Gemeinde und Haushaltsgrösse] {{de icon}} accessed 12 August 2013</ref>
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==Economy==
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{{as of|2011|In 2011}}, Unterlangenegg had an unemployment rate of 0.53%. {{as of|2011}}, there were a total of 344 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 122 people employed in the [[Primary sector of the economy|primary economic sector]] and about 44 businesses involved in this sector. The [[Secondary sector of the economy|secondary sector]] employs 60 people and there were 21 businesses in this sector. The [[Tertiary sector of the economy|tertiary sector]] employs 162 people, with 40 businesses in this sector.<ref name=SFSO/> There were 476 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.7% of the workforce.

{{as of|2008|alt=In 2008}} there were a total of 245 [[full-time equivalent]] jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 83, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 54 of which 27 or (50.0%) were in manufacturing and 28 (51.9%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 108. In the tertiary sector; 31 or 28.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 13 or 12.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 5 or 4.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 4.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 29 or 26.9% were in education and 18 or 16.7% were in health care.<ref>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_06%20-%20Industrie%20und%20Dienstleistungen/06.2%20-%20Unternehmen/06.2%20-%20Unternehmen.asp?lang=1&prod=06&secprod=2&openChild=true Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3] {{de icon}} accessed 28 January 2011</ref>

{{as of|2000|alt=In 2000}}, there were 126 workers who commuted into the municipality and 260 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. A total of 216 workers (63.2% of the 342 total workers in the municipality) both lived and worked in Unterlangenegg.<ref name=commuter>[http://www.media-stat.admin.ch/stat/pendler/pop.php Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb] {{de icon}} accessed 24 June 2010</ref> Of the working population, 8.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 51.1% used a private car.<ref name=SFSO/>

The local and cantonal tax rate in Unterlangenegg is one of the lowest in the canton. In 2012 the average local and cantonal tax rate on a married resident, with two children, of Unterlangenegg making 150,000 [[CHF]] was 12.2%, while an unmarried resident's rate was 18.2%.<ref> [http://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch Statistischer Atlas der Schweiz - Steuerbelastung, 2012 Politische Gemeinden] {{de icon}} accessed 4 August 2014</ref> For comparison, the average rate for the entire canton in 2011, was 14.2% and 22.0%, while the nationwide average was 12.3% and 21.1% respectively.<ref>[http://www.estv2.admin.ch/d/dokumentation/zahlen_fakten/karten/sb-2011_rangliste/index-d.htm Swiss Federal Tax Administration - Grafische Darstellung der Steuerbelastung 2011 in den Kantonen] {{de icon}} {{fr icon}} accessed 17 June 2013</ref>

In 2010 there were a total of 363 tax payers in the municipality. Of that total, 81 made over 75,000 CHF per year. There were 9 people who made between 15,000 and 20,000 per year. The greatest number of workers, 112, made between 50,000 and 75,000 CHF per year. The average income of the over 75,000 CHF group in Unterlangenegg was 103,636 CHF, while the average across all of Switzerland was 131,244 CHF.<ref>[http://www.estv.admin.ch/dokumentation/00075/00076/00701/01362/index.html?lang=de Federal Tax Administration Report Direkte Bundessteuer - Natürliche Personen - Gemeinden - Steuerjahr 2010] {{de icon}} {{fr icon}} accessed 5 August 2014</ref>

In 2011 a total of 3.5% of the population received direct financial assistance from the government.<ref>[http://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch Statistischer Atlas der Schweiz - Bezüger/-innen von Sozialhilfeleistungen (Sozialhilfeempfänger/-innen), 2011] accessed 18 June 2013</ref>

==Politics==
In the 2011 [[Swiss federal election, 2011|federal election]] the most popular party was the [[Swiss People's Party|Swiss People's Party (SVP)]] which received 54.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the [[Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland|Conservative Democratic Party (BDP)]] (13.3%), the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|Social Democratic Party (SP)]] (8.9%) and the [[Green Party of Switzerland|Green Party]] (5.7%). In the federal election, a total of 360 votes were cast, and the [[voter turnout]] was 49.9%.<ref name=election_2011>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/02/blank/data/05/03.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2011 Election] {{de icon}} accessed 8 May 2012</ref>

==Religion==
From the {{as of|2000|alt=2000 census}}, 813 or 87.7% belonged to the [[Swiss Reformed Church]], while 34 or 3.7% were [[Roman Catholic]]. Of the rest of the population, there were 6 [[Orthodox Christianity|members of an Orthodox church]] (or about 0.65% of the population), and there were 16 individuals (or about 1.73% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 (or about 0.22% of the population) who were [[Muslim]]. 29 (or about 3.13% of the population) belonged to no church, are [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] or [[Atheism|atheist]], and 27 individuals (or about 2.91% of the population) did not answer the question.<ref name=STAT2000/>

==Education==
In Unterlangenegg about 55.2% of the population have completed non-mandatory [[Education in Switzerland#Secondary|upper secondary education]], and 14.5% have completed additional higher education (either [[List of universities in Switzerland|university]] or a ''[[Fachhochschule]]'').<ref name=SFSO/> Of the 85 who had completed some form of tertiary schooling listed in the census, 69.4% were Swiss men, 28.2% were Swiss women.<ref name=STAT2000/>


The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory [[Kindergarten]], followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an [[apprenticeship]].<ref>{{Cite report |title=Kantonale Schulstrukturen in der Schweiz und im Fürstentum Liechtenstein / Structures Scolaires Cantonales en Suisse et Dans la Principauté du Liechtenstein |url= http://edudoc.ch/record/35128/files/Schulsystem_alle.pdf |author= EDK/CDIP/IDES |year= 2010 |accessdate= 24 June 2010 }}</ref>
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the [[Swiss People's Party|SVP]] which received 62% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|SPS]] (9.8%), the local small left-wing parties (8.8%) and the [[Green Party of Switzerland|Green Party]] (8.2%).


During the 2012-13 school year, there were a total of 194 students attending classes in Unterlangenegg. There were a total of 18 students in the German language kindergarten classes in the municipality. The municipality's primary school had 45 students in German language classes. During the same year, the lower secondary school had a total of 131 students, of which 0.8% had a different mother language than the classroom language.<ref name=School>[http://www.erz.be.ch/erz/de/index/direktion/organisation/generalsekretariat/statistik/schul-_und_gemeindetabellen.html Datei der Gemeinde- und Schultabellen]{{de icon}} accessed 23 July 2014</ref>
The age distribution of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.1%. In Unterlangenegg about 69.7% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory [[Education in Switzerland#Secondary|upper secondary education]] or additional higher education (either university or a ''[[Fachhochschule]]'').


{{as of|2000|In 2000}}, there were a total of 213 students attending any school in the municipality. Of those, 125 both lived and attended school in the municipality, while 88 students came from another municipality. During the same year, 19 residents attended schools outside the municipality.<ref name=commuter/>
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Unterlangenegg has an unemployment rate of 1.39%. {{as of|2005}}, there were 166 people employed in the [[Primary sector of the economy|primary economic sector]] and about 52 businesses involved in this sector. 66 people are employed in the [[Secondary sector of the economy|secondary sector]] and there are 18 businesses in this sector. 130 people are employed in the [[Tertiary sector of the economy|tertiary sector]], with 30 businesses in this sector.<ref name=SFSO>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] accessed 17-Jul-2009</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 12:14, 14 October 2014

Unterlangenegg, Bern, Switzerland
Municipality
Coat of arms of Unterlangenegg, Bern, Switzerland
Coat of arms
Location of Unterlangenegg, Bern, Switzerland
Map
CountrySwitzerland
CantonBern
DistrictThun
Government
 • MayorRudolf Reusser
Area
[1]
 • Total6.81 km2 (2.63 sq mi)
Elevation
831 m (2,726 ft)
Population
 (31 December 2018)[2]
 • Total997
 • Density150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)
3614
SFOS number0945
ISO 3166 codeCH-BE
Surrounded byBuchholterberg, Fahrni, Homberg, Horrenbach-Buchen, Oberlangenegg, Wachseldorn
Websitewww.unterlangenegg.ch
SFSO statistics

Unterlangenegg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

History

Unterlangenegg is first mentioned in 1308 as Langonegga.[3]

During the Middle Ages the land and scattered farms were part of the Herrschaft of Heimberg. By the 13th century, the Counts of Kyburg owned the Herrschaft. On 11 November 1382, Rudolf II of Kyburg attempted an unsuccessful raid on Solothurn. The attack started the Burgdorferkrieg with the Old Swiss Confederacy. During the war, Bern captured many of the Kyburg lands and forced them to make an unfavorable peace. As part of the peace treaty, in 1384 Bern acquired Heimberg lands including Unterlangenegg. It was assigned to the Bernese Steffisburg court in the Thun District.[3]

The municipality was originally part of the parish of Steffisburg. In the 17th century Anabaptists began settling in the Zulg valley. Their faith threatened the Swiss Reformed faith of Bern, so in 1693 they built a large parish church in the village of Schwarzenegg and spread the new parish over the valley.[4] The church helped Schwarzenegg grow into a local center, however it never became a municipality and today is divided between Unterlangenegg and Oberlangenegg.[3]

In 1950 a secondary school was built in the municipality which provides an education for students from five surrounding municipalities.

Geography

Unterlangenegg has an area of 6.8 km2 (2.63 sq mi).[5] As of the 2004/06 survey, a total of 4.81 km2 (1.86 sq mi) or 70.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.34 km2 (0.52 sq mi) or 19.7% is forested. Of rest of the municipality 0.59 km2 (0.23 sq mi) or 8.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.05 km2 (12 acres) or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02 km2 (4.9 acres) or 0.3% is unproductive land.[6]

From the same survey, housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. A total of 18.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 30.8% is used for growing crops and 36.9% is pasturage, while 2.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.[6]

The municipality is located in the hills between the Zulg and Rotachen valleys. It consists of several scattered settlements and lacks a distinct village center. The municipality is made up of half of the village of Schwarzenegg (shared with Oberlangenegg), the hamlets of Kreuzweg, Bach, Zulgport and Allmend as well as scattered farm houses.

On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Thun, the municipality's former district, was dissolved. On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Thun.[7]

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Quartered Sable a Castle Argent dimidiated and of the last a Firt Tree Vert trunked and eradicated Gules.[8]

Demographics

Unterlangenegg has a population (as of December 2020) of 1,018.[9] As of 2012, 1.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of 3.5%. Migration accounted for 4.2%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.6%.[10]

Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (908 or 98.0%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (5 or 0.5%) and Arabic is the third (4 or 0.4%). There are 2 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Italian.[11]

As of 2013, the population was 49.0% male and 51.0% female. The population was made up of 441 Swiss men (47.9% of the population) and 10 (1.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 459 Swiss women (49.9%) and 10 (1.1%) non-Swiss women.[12] Of the population in the municipality, 391 or about 42.2% were born in Unterlangenegg and lived there in 2000. There were 393 or 42.4% who were born in the same canton, while 76 or 8.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 34 or 3.7% were born outside of Switzerland.[11]

As of 2012, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 21.8% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 60.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.9%.[10]

As of 2000, there were 419 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 420 married individuals, 59 widows or widowers and 29 individuals who are divorced.[11]

As of 2010, there were 98 households that consist of only one person and 28 households with five or more people.[13] In 2000, a total of 329 apartments (88.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 30 apartments (8.1%) were seasonally occupied and 11 apartments (3.0%) were empty.[14] As of 2012, the construction rate of new housing units was 11.9 new units per 1000 residents.[10] In 2012, single family homes made up 32.5% of the total housing in the municipality.[15]

The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][16][17]

Economy

As of  2011, Unterlangenegg had an unemployment rate of 0.53%. As of 2011, there were a total of 344 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 122 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 44 businesses involved in this sector. The secondary sector employs 60 people and there were 21 businesses in this sector. The tertiary sector employs 162 people, with 40 businesses in this sector.[10] There were 476 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.7% of the workforce.

In 2008 there were a total of 245 full-time equivalent jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 83, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 54 of which 27 or (50.0%) were in manufacturing and 28 (51.9%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 108. In the tertiary sector; 31 or 28.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 13 or 12.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 5 or 4.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 4.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 29 or 26.9% were in education and 18 or 16.7% were in health care.[18]

In 2000, there were 126 workers who commuted into the municipality and 260 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. A total of 216 workers (63.2% of the 342 total workers in the municipality) both lived and worked in Unterlangenegg.[19] Of the working population, 8.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 51.1% used a private car.[10]

The local and cantonal tax rate in Unterlangenegg is one of the lowest in the canton. In 2012 the average local and cantonal tax rate on a married resident, with two children, of Unterlangenegg making 150,000 CHF was 12.2%, while an unmarried resident's rate was 18.2%.[20] For comparison, the average rate for the entire canton in 2011, was 14.2% and 22.0%, while the nationwide average was 12.3% and 21.1% respectively.[21]

In 2010 there were a total of 363 tax payers in the municipality. Of that total, 81 made over 75,000 CHF per year. There were 9 people who made between 15,000 and 20,000 per year. The greatest number of workers, 112, made between 50,000 and 75,000 CHF per year. The average income of the over 75,000 CHF group in Unterlangenegg was 103,636 CHF, while the average across all of Switzerland was 131,244 CHF.[22]

In 2011 a total of 3.5% of the population received direct financial assistance from the government.[23]

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party (SVP) which received 54.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) (13.3%), the Social Democratic Party (SP) (8.9%) and the Green Party (5.7%). In the federal election, a total of 360 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.9%.[24]

Religion

From the 2000 census, 813 or 87.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 34 or 3.7% were Roman Catholic. Of the rest of the population, there were 6 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.65% of the population), and there were 16 individuals (or about 1.73% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 (or about 0.22% of the population) who were Muslim. 29 (or about 3.13% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 27 individuals (or about 2.91% of the population) did not answer the question.[11]

Education

In Unterlangenegg about 55.2% of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 14.5% have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).[10] Of the 85 who had completed some form of tertiary schooling listed in the census, 69.4% were Swiss men, 28.2% were Swiss women.[11]

The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.[25]

During the 2012-13 school year, there were a total of 194 students attending classes in Unterlangenegg. There were a total of 18 students in the German language kindergarten classes in the municipality. The municipality's primary school had 45 students in German language classes. During the same year, the lower secondary school had a total of 131 students, of which 0.8% had a different mother language than the classroom language.[26]

As of  2000, there were a total of 213 students attending any school in the municipality. Of those, 125 both lived and attended school in the municipality, while 88 students came from another municipality. During the same year, 19 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[19]

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