Losone is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

The modern municipality of Losone is first mentioned in 1061 as Loxono though this is from a 1402 copy of the original.

[3] During the Middle Ages the settlement or borgo included the so-called Bassa Losone, Arcegno and until 1807, Vosa im Onsernonetal.

It formed a Vicinanza in the parish of Locarno and had its own statutes and laws.

Losone owned rights to alpine pastures in the valleys of Bosco/Gurin, Onsernone and Vigezzo.

The people paid to the nobles of Locarno a tithe on vineyards and grain.

In 1799, Losone opposed the Helvetic authorities who wanted to create a political municipality.

It separated, some time before 1580, from the mother church of San Vittore in Muralto to form a parish.

Grinders, pewter workers and customs officers moved from Losone to Tuscany and Rome, while stove fitters and chocolate manufacturers went to Austria and Hungary.

The machine factory Agie opened in Losono in 1957, which contributed to the emergence of a major industrial area in the region.

Between 1940 and 1980 Losone recorded the strongest population growth of all of the municipalities in the Sopraceneri.

[3] Losone has an area, as of 1997[update], of 9.53 square kilometers (3.68 sq mi).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a tower Azure charged with a lion of the first, langued Gules.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian (81.8%), with German being second most common (11.2%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (2.0%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Losone is; 560 children or 8.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 691 teenagers or 10.7% are between 10 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] The Secondary School at via Primore 13 is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

In the federal election, a total of 1,884 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 45.8%.

[14] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 4,080 registered voters in Losone, of which 2,415 or 59.2% voted.

[8] There were 2,959 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.3% of the workforce.

[17] From the 2000 census[update], 4,500 or 76.2% were Roman Catholic, while 587 or 9.9% 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 professional program lasts three years and prepares a student for a job in engineering, nursing, computer science, business, tourism and similar fields.