Sins

Geschichte

Sins is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.GeographySins has an area, of 20.3km2. Of this area, 14.64km2 or 72.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.54km2 or 17.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.95km2 or 9.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.1km2 or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01km2 or 0.0% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, 16.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 45.3% is used for growing crops and 24.8% is pastures, while 2.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent three Roses Gules barbed seeded slipped and leaved proper issuant from Coupeaux Vert.DemographicsSins has a population of, 14.9% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 13.1%. Most of the population speaks German (92.7%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 2.0%) and Albanian being third ( 1.3%).