Ludiano is a former municipality in the district of Blenio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

[1] In the past, the main sources of income were crops, livestock and vineyards.

This income was supplemented by money sent back to the village by emigrants to other European countries.

[1] Ludiano has an area, as of 1997[update], of 6.19 square kilometers (2.39 sq mi).

[3] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules St. Secundus clerad Or holding in his dexter hand a pennant Argent and in his sinister a Church of the last.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian(87.6%), with German being second most common ( 5.8%) and French being third ( 3.1%).

[6] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Ludiano is; 50 children or 13.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 48 teenagers or 12.7% are between 10 and 19.

[10] About 58.1% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement).

[7] The historical population is given in the following table:[1] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 39.88% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 159 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 61.6%.

[14] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 260 registered voters in Ludiano, of which 195 or 75.0% voted.

[7] There were 125 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.8% of the workforce.

[7] From the 2000 census[update], 230 or 79.0% were Roman Catholic, while 19 or 6.5% 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.