Haute-Ajoie

Geschichte

Haute-Ajoie is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. It was founded on January 1, 2009 by the former municipalities of Chevenez, Damvant, Réclère and Roche-d'Or.GeographyHaute-Ajoie has an area of. Of this area, 20.38km2 or 55.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 14.62km2 or 40.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.45km2 or 4.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01km2 or 0.0% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.4%. Out of the forested land, 36.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 25.4% is used for growing crops and 25.9% is pastures and 3.8% is used for alpine pastures.DemographicsHaute-Ajoie has a population of., 7.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of -2.4%. Migration accounted for 0.2%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.8%.Most of the population speaks French (91.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (6.8%) and Italian is the third (0.4%)., the population was 50.3% male and 49.7% female. The population was made up of 460 Swiss men (46.1% of the population) and 41 (4.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 460 Swiss women (46.1%) and 36 (3.6%) non-Swiss women., children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 55.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.8%.