Niederösch 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

Cantons of Switzerland

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 of Bern in Switzerland

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.

History

Niederösch is first mentioned in 886 as Osse and is mentioned in 1310 as villa Öschge inferioris.

Geography

Niederösch has an area, , of 4.63 km² (1.8 sq mi). Of this area, 3.16 km² (1.2 sq mi) or 68.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.23 km² (0.474905655068818 sq mi) or 26.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.23 km² (0.0888034964762831 sq mi) or 5.0% is settled (buildings or roads).

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. 26.3% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 54.6% is used for growing crops and 12.7% is pastures.

Niederösch consists of the Straßendorf

Linear village

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(a village that lies almost entirely along a single road) of Ober- (Upper Village) and Unterdorf (Lower Village) on the Ösch river and the farm Rychebrunne.

Demographics

Niederösch has a population (as of ) of . , 1.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 3.3%. Most of the population speaks German (97.1%), with French being second most common ( 1.4%) and Italian being third ( 1.0%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP

Swiss People's Party

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 which received 61.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

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 (11.9%), the Green Party

Green Party of Switzerland

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 (7.7%) and the FDP

Free Democratic Party of Switzerland

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 (5.9%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.4% and the seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.2%. In Niederösch about 78.9% 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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).

Niederösch has an unemployment rate of 0.35%. , there were 53 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 17 businesses involved in this sector. 6 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 2 businesses in this sector. 21 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 4 businesses in this sector.
The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1764	195
1850	362
1900	346
1950	324
2000	210