Tuggen

Geschichte

Tuggen is a municipality in March District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.GeographyTuggen has an area, of 13.6km2. Of this area, 62.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 22.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 11.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (3.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The Buechberg hill is located on the area of the municipality. The former Tuggenersee was named after the municipality.DemographicsTuggen has a population of., 14.7% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 12.9%. Most of the population speaks German (90.1%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.5%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 1.8%).the gender distribution of the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. The age distribution, in Tuggen is; 735 people or 27.8% of the population is between 0 and 19. 861 people or 32.5% are 20 to 39, and 806 people or 30.5% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 137 people or 5.2% are 65 to 74. There are 83 people or 3.1% who are 70 to 79 and 24 people or 0.91% of the population who are over 80.there are 1,013 households, of which 263 households (or about 26.0%) contain only a single individual. 90 or about 8.9% 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 FDP (21.1%), the CVP (12.4%) and the SPS (10.1%).