Religion
From the 2000 census, 67 or 12.8% were Roman Catholic, while 398 or 76.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.38% of the population), and there were 12 individuals (or about 2.30% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Jewish, and 42 (or about 8.05% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 6 individuals (or about 1.15% of the population) did not answer the question.
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