Religion
From the 2000 census, 21,525 or 43.9% were Roman Catholic, while 13,418 or 27.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 831 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.70% of the population), there were 721 individuals (or about 1.47% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 1,007 individuals (or about 2.06% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 17 individuals (or about 0.03% of the population) who were Jewish, and 3,278 (or about 6.69% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 170 individuals who were Buddhist, 231 individuals who were Hindu and 43 individuals who belonged to another church. 6,242 (or about 12.74% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 1,503 individuals (or about 3.07% of the population) did not answer the question.
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