Religion
From the 2000 census, 408 or 29.0% were Roman Catholic, while 482 or 34.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 10 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.71% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.14% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 92 individuals (or about 6.53% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 68 (or about 4.83% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist and 4 individuals who belonged to another church. 327 (or about 23.21% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 61 individuals (or about 4.33% of the population) did not answer the question.
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