Religion
From the 2000 census, 842 or 35.7% were Roman Catholic, while 905 or 38.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 19 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.81% of the population), there were 4 individuals (or about 0.17% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 69 individuals (or about 2.93% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 19 individuals (or about 0.81% of the population) who were Jewish, and 27 (or about 1.15% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 7 individuals who were Buddhist, 3 individuals who were Hindu and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 406 (or about 17.22% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 82 individuals (or about 3.48% of the population) did not answer the question.
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