Deisswil bei Münchenbuchsee is a municipality

Municipalities of Switzerland

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 in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district

Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)

Bern-Mittelland District in the Canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010. It is part of the Bern-Mittelland administrative region, and is the only district in the region...

 in the canton

Cantons of Switzerland

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 of Bern in Switzerland

Switzerland

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.

Geography

Deisswil bei Münchenbuchsee has an area, , of 2.15 km² (0.83011964097395 sq mi). Of this area, 1.29 km² (0.49807178458437 sq mi) or 60.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.54 km² (0.208495165639969 sq mi) or 25.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.3 km² (0.115830647577761 sq mi) or 14.0% is settled (buildings or roads).

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.6%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 5.6% of the area 24.2% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 46.0% is used for growing crops and 13.0% is pastures.

Deisswil bei Münchenbuchsee is a Straßendorf (a village that lies almost entirely along a single road) with a few individual farms located on the north west of Moos Lake. It belongs to the parish

Parish church

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 and the greater community (Gemeindeverband) of Münchenbuchsee.

Demographics

Deisswil bei Münchenbuchsee has a population (as of ) of . , 2.2% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 6.9%. Most of the population speaks German (98.9%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.1%) and being third (none%).

In the election the most popular party was the SVP

Swiss People's Party

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 which received 70.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

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 (13.5%), the local small right-wing parties (2.5%) and the Green Party

Green Party of Switzerland

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 (2%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.8%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Deisswil bei Münchenbuchsee about 29.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule

Fachhochschule

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).

Deisswil bei Münchenbuchsee has an unemployment rate of 23%. , there were 7 people employed in the primary economic sector and 1 business involved in this sector. No one is employed in the secondary sector. 7 people are employed in the tertiary sector, but there are no businesses in this sector.

The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1764	64
1850	115
1900	129
1930	94
1950	100
1970	72