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Sisikon

Field	Value
subject_name	Sisikon
image_photo	Sisikon 0844.jpg
municipality_type	municipality
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canton	Uri
iso-code-region	CH-UR
district	n.a.
coordinates
postal_code	6452
municipality_code	1217
area	16.30
elevation	453	elevation_description=
population		populationof =	popofyear =
website	www.sisikon.ch
mayor		mayor_asof=	mayor_party=
mayor_title		list_of_mayors =
neighboring_municipalities	Bauen, Bürglen, Flüelen, Morschach (SZ), Riemenstalden (SZ), Seelisberg

| iso-code-region = CH-UR |}} Sisikon is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It is situated on the shore of Lake Lucerne.

Geography

Sisikon has an area, , of 16.3 km2. Of this area, 30.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 44% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (23.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Spilauersee is located on an alp below Rossstock.

Demographics

Sisikon has a population (as of ) of . , 6.8% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -2.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (96.0%), with Italian being second most common (1.4%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (1.1%). the gender distribution of the population was 51.8% male and 48.2% female.

In the 2007 federal election the FDP party received 75% of the vote.

In Sisikon about 69.7% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).

Sisikon has an unemployment rate of 0.36%. , there were 24 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 11 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 4 businesses in this sector. 90 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 16 businesses in this sector.

The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1970	309
1980	314
1990	319
2000	350
2005	390
2007	382

Transport

Sisikon is served by the Sisikon station, situated within the municipality and on the Gotthard railway. Sisikon can be accessed by road via the Axenstrasse.

References

{{as of. 1993. de accessed 8 September 2009
[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] accessed 09-Sep-2009
[http://www.ur.ch/dateimanager/09.06.09_01_espop_2007.pdf Uri Population statistics] {{in lang. de accessed 8 September 2009
[http://www.ur.ch/dateimanager/09.06.25_uri-in-zahlen.pdf Uri in Numbers 2009/10 edition] {{in lang. de accessed 8 September 2009

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