Religion
From the 2000 census, 4,925 or 34.8% were Roman Catholic, while 5,439 or 38.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 201 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.42% of the population), there were 9 individuals (or about 0.06% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 897 individuals (or about 6.34% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 16 individuals (or about 0.11% of the population) who were Jewish, and 412 (or about 2.91% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 23 individuals who were Buddhist, 8 individuals who were Hindu and 30 individuals who belonged to another church. 1,854 (or about 13.10% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 771 individuals (or about 5.45% of the population) did not answer the question.
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