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Rothenthurm is a municipality in Schwyz District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.
the gender distribution of the population was 51.2% male and 48.8% female. The age distribution, , in Rothenthurm is; 650 people or 31.1% of the population is between 0 and 19. 698 people or 33.4% are 20 to 39, and 544 people or 26.0% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 116 people or 5.6% are 65 to 74. There are 64 people or 3.1% who are 70 to 79 and 17 people or 0.81% of the population who are over 80.[http://www.sz.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d2/d25265/d1556/p2298.cfm Canton Schwyz Statistics] accessed 27 August 2009
there are 723 households, of which 176 households (or about 24.3%) contain only a single individual. 77 or about 10.7% are large households, with at least five members.
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 61.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (20.3%), the FDP (8.8%) and the SPS (8%).
In Rothenthurm about 57.2% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
Rothenthurm has an unemployment rate of 1.15%. , there were 121 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 42 businesses involved in this sector. 409 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 43 businesses in this sector. 212 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 55 businesses in this sector.
From the , 1,664 or 79.7% are Roman Catholic, while 140 or 6.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there are 75 individuals (or about 3.59% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are less than 5 individuals who belong to another Christian church. There are 100 (or about 4.79% of the population) who are . There are less than 5 individuals who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 39 (or about 1.87% of the population) belong to no church, are Agnosticism or Atheism, and 66 individuals (or about 3.16% of the population) did not answer the question.
The historical population is given in the following table:
1950 970 1960 1,159 1970 1,282 1980 1,345 1985 1,436 1990 1,664 2000 2,063 2005 2,017 2007 2,081
Tourism
In winter, the 20 km long cross-country skiing trail Finnenloipe Rothenthurm leads through the high moor of Rothenthurm.
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