Uerkheim

Geschichte

Uerkheim is a municipality in the district of Zofingen in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.GeographyUerkheim has an area, of 7.1km2. Of this area, 3.41km2 or 48.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.86km2 or 40.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.79km2 or 11.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01km2 or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 6.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.7%. Out of the forested land, 36.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 13.4% is used for growing crops and 32.8% is pastures, while 1.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality of Uerkheim is considering a merger on 1 January 2014 into Zofingen.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a Bar Gules between two Mullets of Five Or.DemographicsUerkheim has a population of, 9.5% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -2.9%. Most of the population speaks German(95.4%), with Albanian being second most common ( 1.3%) and French being third ( 0.9%).