Religion
From the 2000 census, 1,678 or 32.4% were Roman Catholic, while 2,304 or 44.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 60 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.16% of the population), there were 4 individuals (or about 0.08% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 267 individuals (or about 5.15% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 16 individuals (or about 0.31% of the population) who were Jewish, and 60 (or about 1.16% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 29 individuals who were Buddhist, 3 individuals who were Hindu and 9 individuals who belonged to another church. 673 (or about 12.99% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 204 individuals (or about 3.94% of the population) did not answer the question.
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