Staffelbach

Geschichte

Staffelbach is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.GeographyStaffelbach has an area, of 8.94km2. Of this area, 4.77km2 or 53.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.5km2 or 39.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.63km2 or 7.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.05km2 or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.1%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area Out of the forested land, 37.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 31.2% is used for growing crops and 20.6% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Bridge Argent masoned above two barrulets wavy in base and in chief a Mullet of the same.DemographicsStaffelbach has a population of, 6.6% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 7.6%. Most of the population speaks German(96.6%), with Italian being second most common ( 0.9%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.8%).