Religion
From the 2000 census, 93 or 40.6% were Roman Catholic, while 59 or 25.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church who belonged, and there were 14 individuals (or about 6.11% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were there was 1 individual who was Islamic. 57 (or about 24.89% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 4 individuals (or about 1.75% of the population) did not answer the question.
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