Religion
From the 2000 census, 1,133 or 56.3% were Roman Catholic, while 520 or 25.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 25 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.24% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.10% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 28 individuals (or about 1.39% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 64 (or about 3.18% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 9 individuals who were Buddhist, 4 individuals who were Hindu and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 160 (or about 7.96% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 65 individuals (or about 3.23% of the population) did not answer the question.
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