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Develier
Summary
Develier is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
Develier is first mentioned in 1139 as Divilier.
Develier has an area of . Of this area, or 47.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 43.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.8%. Out of the forested land, 40.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 22.8% is used for growing crops and 14.9% is pastures and 8.9% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Delemont district, on the Delemont-Porrentruy road which runs over the Les Rangiers pass. It consists of the village of Develier and the hamlet of Develier-Dessus.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Semi Lion rampant Or langued Argent issuant from Coupeaux of six of the last.
Develier has a population () of . , 10.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 7.3%. Migration accounted for 3.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.8%.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,175 or 93.8%) as their first language, German is the second most common (33 or 2.6%) and Italian is the third (15 or 1.2%).
the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 589 Swiss men (43.7% of the population) and 75 (5.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 616 Swiss women (45.7%) and 67 (5.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 477 or about 38.1% were born in Develier and lived there in 2000. There were 442 or 35.3% who were born in the same canton, while 154 or 12.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 147 or 11.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
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