Stetten, Schaffhausen
{{Infobox Swiss town
| subject_name = Stetten
| municipality_type = municipality
| image_photo = 2014-12-22 13-52-12 Switzerland Kanton Schaffhausen Stetten SH Stetten SH.JPG
| imagepath_flag = CHE Stetten SH Flag.svg
| imagepath_coa = Stetten SH-blazon.svg
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| canton = Schaffhausen
| iso-code-region = CH-SH
| district = n.a.
|coordinates = {{coord|47|44|N|8|39|E|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code = 8234
| municipality_code = 2919
| area = 4.73
| elevation = 579|elevation_description=
| population = 1084 |populationof = December 2008 | popofyear = 2008
| website = www.stetten.ch
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| neighboring_municipalities= Büttenhardt, Lohn, Schaffhausen, Thayngen
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Stetten ({{IPA|de|ˈʃtɛtn̩|-|De-Stetten.ogg}}) is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.
Geography
File:ETH-BIB-Stetten, Schloss Herblingen-LBS H1-022349.tif
Stetten has an area, {{as of|2006|lc=on}}, of {{convert|4.7|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}. Of this area, 45.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 44.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 9.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.2%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Moon increscent Or.[http://www.fotw.us/flags/ch-sh014.html Flags of the World.com] accessed 30-December-2009
Demographics
Stetten has a population ({{as of|2008|lc=on}}) of 1,084, of which 16.7% are foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, ({{as of|2008|lc=on}}), 47.3% are from Germany, 10.2% are from Italy, 2.7% are from Serbia, 0.5% are from Macedonia, 0.5% are from Turkey, and 38.7% are from another country.[http://www.statistik.sh.ch/index.php?id=10032 Statistical Office of the Canton of Schaffhausen] {{in lang|de}} accessed 2 December 2009 Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 42.1%. Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks German (94.0%), with English being second most common ( 1.4%) and Danish being third ( 1.4%).[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] accessed 30-December-2009
The age distribution of the population ({{as of|2008|lc=on}}) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.5%.
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 42.3% of the vote. The next two most popular parties were the FDP (32.4%), and the SP (25.3%) .
In Stetten about 87.9% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). In Stetten, {{as of|2007|lc=on}}, 3.31% of the population attend kindergarten or another pre-school, 8.04% attend a Primary School, 4.64% attend a lower level Secondary School, and 3.6% attend a higher level Secondary School.
{{as of|2000}}, 20.3% of the population belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and 60.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.
The historical population is given in the following table:
| class="wikitable" |
| year
! population |
|---|
| 1990
| 670 |
| 2000
| 889 |
Economy
Stetten has an unemployment rate of 0.84%. {{as of|2005}}, there were 18 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 22 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 5 businesses in this sector. 62 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 20 businesses in this sector.
{{as of|2008}} the mid year average unemployment rate was 1.1%. There were 32 non-agrarian businesses in the municipality and 24.5% of the (non-agrarian) population was involved in the secondary sector of the economy while 75.5% were involved in the third. At the same time, 55.5% of the working population was employed full-time, and 44.5% was employed part-time. There were 110 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 46.4% of the workforce. {{as of|2000}} there were 62 residents who worked in the municipality, while 319 residents worked outside Stetten and 43 people commuted into the municipality for work.
{{as of|2008}}, there is 1 restaurant and the hospitality industry in Stetten employs 2 people.
Heritage sites of national significance
{{Commons category|Stetten SH}}
Herblingen Castle is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.[http://www.bevoelkerungsschutz.admin.ch/internet/bs/de/home/themen/kgs/kgs_inventar.html Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501142322/http://www.bevoelkerungsschutz.admin.ch/internet/bs/de/home/themen/kgs/kgs_inventar.html |date=2009-05-01 }} 21.11.2008 version, {{in lang|de}} accessed 30-Dec-2009
References
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Category:Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Schaffhausen