Bremgarten bei Bern is a municipality

Municipalities of Switzerland

Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...

 in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district

Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)

Bern-Mittelland District in the Canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010. It is part of the Bern-Mittelland administrative region, and is the only district in the region...

 in the canton

Cantons of Switzerland

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 of Bern in Switzerland

Switzerland

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.

It was home to the Bremgarten Circuit, the Grand Prix motor racing

Grand Prix motor racing

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 course that at one time hosted the Swiss Grand Prix

Swiss Grand Prix

The Swiss Grand Prix was the premier auto race of Switzerland. In its later years it was a Formula One race....

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Geography

Bremgarten bei Bern has an area, , of 1.91 km² (0.737455122911742 sq mi). Of this area, 0.61 km² (0.235522316741446 sq mi) or 31.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.31 km² (0.119691669163686 sq mi) or 16.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.87 km² (0.335908877975505 sq mi) or 45.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.08 km² (19.8 acre) or 4.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acre) or 0.5% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 35.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.3%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.1%. 12.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 21.5% is used for growing crops and 8.9% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.

Demographics

Bremgarten has a population (as of ) of . , 7.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7.1%. Most of the population speaks German (92.3%), with French being second most common ( 2.0%) and Italian being third ( 1.1%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the FDP

Free Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....

 which received 23.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....

 (23.5%), the SVP

Swiss People's Party

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 (22.4%) and the Green Party

Green Party of Switzerland

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 (17.2%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.7% and the seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.5%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Bremgarten about 86.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule

Fachhochschule

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).

Bremgarten has an unemployment rate of 1.58%. , there were 34 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 53 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 12 businesses in this sector. 404 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 92 businesses in this sector.