Maladers

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| canton = Graubünden

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| district = Plessur

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| postal_code = 7026

| municipality_code = 3926

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Maladers is a former municipality in the Plessur Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Maladers merged into Chur.

History

Geography

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Maladers has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of {{Swiss area|3926|mi=on}}.{{Swiss area data|3926|QUELLE}} Of this area, about 28.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 63.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and 3.9% is unproductive land. In the 2004/09 survey a total of {{convert|14|ha|acre|abbr=on}} or about 1.8% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of {{convert|2|ha|acre|abbr=on}} over the 1985 amount. Of the agricultural land, {{convert|1|ha|acre|abbr=on}} is used for orchards and vineyards, {{convert|94|ha|acre|abbr=on}} is fields and grasslands and {{convert|206|ha|acre|abbr=on}} consists of alpine grazing areas. Since 1985 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by {{convert|45|ha|acre|abbr=on}}. Over the same time period the amount of forested land has increased by {{convert|48|ha|acre|abbr=on}}. Rivers and lakes cover {{convert|4|ha|acre|abbr=on}} in the municipality.{{cite web |url=https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/raum-umwelt/bodennutzung-bedeckung.gnpdetail.2016-0436.html |title=Arealstatistik Land Use - Gemeinden nach 10 Klassen |date=24 November 2016 |website=www.landuse-stat.admin.ch |publisher=Swiss Federal Statistical Office |access-date=27 December 2016}}[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/regionalstatistik/regionale-portraets-kennzahlen/gemeinden/daten-erlaeuterungen.assetdetail.2422865.html Regionalporträts 2017: Swiss Federal Statistical Office] {{in lang|de}} accessed 18 May 2017.

Before 2017, the municipality was located in the Schanfigg sub-district of the Plessur district at the entrance to the Schanfiggs valley. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Maladers and the hamlets of Sax and Brandacker.

Demographics

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Maladers has a population ({{as of|{{Swiss populations YM|CH-GR}}|lc=on}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-GR|3926}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-GR}} {{as of|2015}}, 8.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 5 years (2010–2015) the population has changed at a rate of 1.81%. The birth rate in the municipality, in 2015, was 9.9, while the death rate was 5.9 per thousand residents.

{{as of|2015}}, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 15.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) are 64.2% of the population and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 20.4%. In 2015 there were 192 single residents, 246 people who were married or in a civil partnership, 26 widows or widowers and 42 divorced residents.[https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Default.aspx?px_language=de Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Ständige und nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geschlecht, Zivilstand und Geburtsort] {{in lang|de}} accessed 8 September 2016.

In 2015 there were 233 private households in Maladers with an average household size of 2.15 persons. In 2015 about 67.9% of all buildings in the municipality were single family homes.[https://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch/maps/13/de/12396_11973_175_169/20440.html Statistical Atlas of Switzerland - Anteil Einfamilienhäuser am gesamten Gebäudebestand, 2015] accessed 18 May 2017. Of the 189 inhabited buildings in the municipality, in 2000, about 67.2% were single family homes and 16.9% were multiple family buildings. Additionally, about 33.9% of the buildings were built before 1919, while 12.7% were built between 1991 and 2000.[https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/ Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Thema 09 - Bau- und Wohnungswesen ] {{in lang|de}} accessed 5 May 2016. In 2014 the rate of construction of new housing units per 1000 residents was 0.0%. The vacancy rate for the municipality, {{as of|2016|alt=in 2016}}, was 2.47%.

Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks German (95.5%), with Romansh being second most common ( 2.2%) and Italian being third ( 1.0%).[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105172441/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html |date=2016-01-05 }} accessed 28-Oct-2009.

The historical population is given in the following chart:[https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/default.aspx?px_language=de Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, 1850-2000 ] {{in lang|de}} accessed 27 April 2016.

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Politics

In the 2015 federal election the most popular party was the SVP with 51.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (16.0%), the BDP (14.4%) and the GLP (11.4%). In the federal election, a total of 165 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 39.3%. The 2015 election saw a large change in the voting when compared to 2011, though this may be unsurprising considering the small number of voters. The percentage of the vote received by the SVP increased sharply from 31.5% in 2011 to 51.2% in 2015, while the percentage that the BDP dropped from 21.8% to 14.4%.{{cite web| url= http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/02/blank/data/07/03.html| publisher= Swiss Federal Statistical Office| title= Nationalratswahlen 2015: Stärke der Parteien und Wahlbeteiligung nach Gemeinden| language= German| trans-title= National council elections 2015: strength of the parties and voter turnout by municipality| accessdate= 18 July 2016| url-status= dead| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160802003536/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/02/blank/data/07/03.html| archivedate= 2 August 2016}}

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 51.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (28.1%), the FDP (8.5%) and the CVP (6.2%).

Education

In Maladers about 72.9% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).

Economy

Maladers is classed as a bedroom community with few new residents. The municipality is part of the agglomeration of Chur.{{cite web|url=https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/querschnittsthemen/raeumliche-analysen/raeumliche-gliederungen/analyseregionen.assetdetail.335600.html|title=Die Raumgliederungen der Schweiz 2016 |publisher= Swiss Federal Statistical Office |location=Neuchâtel, Switzerland |language=de, fr, it, en |date=17 February 2016 |accessdate= 14 December 2016}}

{{as of|2014|In 2014}}, there were a total of 88 people employed in the municipality. Of these, a total of 22 people worked in 11 businesses in the primary economic sector. The secondary sector employed 34 workers in 13 separate businesses. Finally, the tertiary sector provided 32 jobs in 15 businesses.[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/kataloge-datenbanken/daten.assetdetail.331681.html Federal Statistical Office -Arbeitsstätten und Beschäftigte nach Gemeinde, Wirtschaftssektor und Grössenklasse] accessed 31 October 2016. In 2011 the unemployment rate in the municipality was 1.6%.{{cite web|url=https://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch/maps/13/map/mapIdOnly/0_de.html |title=Arbeitslosenquote 2011 |website= Statistical Atlas of Switzerland |publisher= Swiss Federal Statistical Office |accessdate=4 May 2017}}

In 2015 the average cantonal, municipal and church tax rate in the municipality for a couple with two children making {{CHF|link=yes|80,000}} was 3.9% while the rate for a single person making {{CHF|150,000}} was 16.7%, both of which are close to the average for the canton and nationally. In 2013 the average income in the municipality per tax payer was {{CHF|62,336}} and the per person average was {{CHF|28,988}}, which is less than the cantonal average of {{CHF|69,964}} and {{CHF|33,075}} respectively and the national per tax payer average of {{CHF|82,682}} and the per person average of {{CHF|35,825}}.{{cite web|url= https://www.atlas.bfs.admin.ch/maps/13/de/12307_3080_104_70/20321.html |title= 18 - Öffentliche Finanzen > Steuern |date= |website= Swiss Atlas|publisher=Swiss Federal Statistical Office |access-date= 26 April 2017}}

References

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