The district has an area, as of 1997[update], of 360.74 square kilometers (139.28 sq mi).

[4] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 50.2% male and 49.8% female.

[6] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in the district is: 523 children or 9.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 569 teenagers or 10.0% are between 10 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following table:[9] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 30.81% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 2,112 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.2%.

[10] In the 2007[update] Ticino Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 5,182 registered voters in the district, of which 2,874 or 55.5% voted.

[11] From the 2000 census[update], 4,422 or 83.6% were Catholic, while 184 or 3.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education.

The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college.

In Ticino, vocational students may either attend school while working on their internship or apprenticeship (which takes three or four years) or may attend school followed by an internship or apprenticeship (which takes one year as a full-time student or one and a half to two years as a part-time student).

The professional program lasts three years and prepares a student for a job in engineering, nursing, computer science, business, tourism and similar fields.