Oberiberg

Oberiberg is a village and municipality in Schwyz District in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. The municipality comprises the village of Oberiberg and the hamlet and ski area of Hoch-Ybrig. Oberiberg is first mentioned around 1217-22 as Yberge. Until the separation, in 1884, into Unteriberg and Oberiberg the independent municipality was known simply as Iberg. Oberiberg has an area, , of . Of this area, 50.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 39.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (8.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). It consists of the village of Oberiberg and the hamlet of Hoch-Ybrig. Oberiberg has a population (as of ) of . , 7.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.2%), with Portuguese being second most common ( 0.4%) and Albanian being third ( 0.3%). the gender distribution of the population was 51.7% male and 48.3% female. The age distribution, , in Oberiberg is; 150 people or 20.9% of the population is between 0 and 19. 189 people or 26.3% are 20 to 39, and 260 people or 36.2% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 61 people or 8.5% are 65 to 74. There are 54 people or 7.5% who are 70 to 79 and 4 people or 0.56% of the population who are over 80. there are 296 households, of which 89 households (or about 30.1%) contain only a single individual. 22 or about 7.4% are large households, with at least five members. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 62.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (19.1%), the SPS (8.6%) and the FDP (7.2%). In Oberiberg about 56.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Oberiberg has an unemployment rate of 0.8%. , there were 98 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 41 businesses involved in this sector.