Religion
From the 2000 census, 3,447 or 23.7% were Roman Catholic, while 6,579 or 45.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 37 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.25% of the population), there were 22 individuals (or about 0.15% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 813 individuals (or about 5.60% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 8 individuals (or about 0.06% of the population) who were Jewish, and 318 (or about 2.19% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 19 individuals who were Buddhist and 26 individuals who belonged to another church. 3,077 (or about 21.18% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 577 individuals (or about 3.97% of the population) did not answer the question.
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