[3] The blazon of the district coat of arms is Per pale Azure and Gules, overall a Cross bottony Argent.

[1] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (9,391 or 90.1%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (232 or 2.2%) and German is the third (206 or 2.0%).

[5] The historical population is given in the following chart:[7] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 39.73% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 4,751 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 61.1%.

[9] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 4,668 votes were cast, of which 309 or about 6.6% were invalid.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 8,264 or 79.3% were Roman Catholic, while 817 or 7.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.