Of the rest of the land, 5.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (95.1%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.3%) and Albanian being third ( 0.9%).

[5] In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 52.6% of the vote.

[3] From the 2000 census[update], 719 or 80.2% were Roman Catholic, while 54 or 6.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

There were less than 5 individuals who belonged to another church (not listed on the census), 44 (or about 4.91% of the population) belonged to no church, were agnostic or atheist, and 40 individuals (or about 4.46% of the population) did not answer the question.