Illgau

Geschichte

Illgau is a municipality in Schwyz District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.HistoryIllgau is first mentioned in 1370 as Ilgoe.GeographyIllgau has an area, of 10.9km2. Of this area, 62% is used for agricultural purposes, while 31.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).It consists of the village sections of Illgau, Vorder Oberberg and Hinter Oberberg as well as scattered farm houses. All of the farm houses, up to about the 1300m level are occupied throughout the year.DemographicsIllgau has a population of., 1.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7%. Most of the population speaks German (99.2%), with Albanian being second most common ( 0.3%) and Russian being third ( 0.3%).the gender distribution of the population was 50.8% male and 49.2% female. The age distribution, in Illgau is; 242 people or 33.6% of the population is between 0 and 19. 241 people or 33.4% are 20 to 39, and 166 people or 23.0% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 45 people or 6.2% are 65 to 74. There are 19 people or 2.6% who are 70 to 79 and 8 people or 1.11% of the population who are over 80.there are 248 households, of which 71 households (or about 28.6%) contain only a single individual. 31 or about 12.5% are large households, with at least five members.In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 53.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (36.4%), the SPS (5.5%) and the FDP (1.7%).