Kernenried is a municipality

Municipalities of Switzerland

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 in the administrative district of Emmental

Emmental (administrative district)

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 in the canton

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 of Bern in Switzerland

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.

History

Kernenried was first mentioned around 1261-63 as Reide, in 1318 it was mentioned as Kerrenriet.

Geography

Kernenried has an area, , of 3.33 km² (1.3 sq mi). Of this area, 2 km² (0.77220431718507 sq mi) or 60.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.79 km² (0.305020705288103 sq mi) or 23.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.49 km² (0.189190057710342 sq mi) or 14.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km² (7.4 acre) or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acre) or 0.3% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.3%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.5% of the area 23.7% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 51.4% is used for growing crops and 7.5% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.

It is located along the Urtenen River

Demographics

Kernenried has a population (as of ) of . , 2.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 5.5%. Most of the population speaks German (98.0%), with Macedonian being second most common ( 0.9%) and Hungarian being third ( 0.4%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP

Swiss People's Party

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 which received 47.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

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 (15.8%), the FDP

Free Democratic Party of Switzerland

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 (14.7%) and the Green Party

Green Party of Switzerland

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 (9.9%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.9% and the seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Kernenried about 87.8% 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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).

Kernenried has an unemployment rate of 0.55%. , there were 44 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 13 businesses involved in this sector. 10 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 3 businesses in this sector. 53 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 11 businesses in this sector.

The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1764	187
1850	331
1900	349
1950	306
2000	445