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Courchapoix
Summary
Courchapoix is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Courchapoix is first mentioned in 1435 as Curchappoix.
Courchapoix has an area of . Of this area, or 52.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 45.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 40.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 26.0% is used for growing crops and 16.0% is pastures and 10.3% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Delemont district, in the eastern Val Terbi.
The municipalities of Corban, Courchapoix, Courroux, Mervelier, Montsevelier, Vermes and Vicques are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality of Val Terbi.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per bend Sable two batons fleury in saltire crossed with a baton topped with a hand all Or and Gules through a Cog Wheel a Head of Grain all of the third, overall a Bendlet Argent.
Courchapoix has a population () of . , 3.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of -0.9%. Migration accounted for -6.6%, while births and deaths accounted for 4.9%.
Most of the population () speaks French (393 or 98.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (5 or 1.3%) and Italian is the third (1 or 0.3%).
the population was 49.9% male and 50.1% female. The population was made up of 199 Swiss men (47.3% of the population) and 11 (2.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 205 Swiss women (48.7%) and 6 (1.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 203 or about 50.9% were born in Courchapoix and lived there in 2000. There were 128 or 32.
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