Ipsach 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 Biel/Bienne administrative district

Biel/Bienne (administrative district)

Biel/Bienne District is an administrative district in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is located along both shores of the northeastern half of Lake Biel and is part of the Seeland administrative region, and its capital is Biel/Bienne. It contains 19 municipalities with an area of and a...

 in the canton

Cantons of Switzerland

The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...

 of Bern in Switzerland

Switzerland

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Geography

Ipsach has an area, , of 1.91 km² (0.737455122911742 sq mi). Of this area, 0.86 km² (0.33204785638958 sq mi) or 45.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.07 km² (17.3 acre) or 3.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.96 km² (0.370658072248834 sq mi) or 50.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01 km² (2.5 acre) or 0.5% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.6% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 30.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 8.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 6.8%. 2.6% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 37.7% is used for growing crops and 6.3% is pastures.

It is located on the right shore of Lake Biel

Lake Biel

Lake Biel or Lake Bienne is a lake in the west of Switzerland. Together with Lake Morat and Lake Neuchâtel, it is one of the three large lakes in the Jura region of Switzerland. It lies approximately at , at the language boundary between German & French speaking areas.The lake is 15 km long and up...

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Demographics

Ipsach has a population (as of ) of . , 8.9% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 20.6%. Most of the population speaks German (86.9%), with French being second most common ( 8.8%) and Italian being third ( 1.0%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SPS

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

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

 which received 26.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP

Swiss People's Party

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 (26.6%), 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....

 (20%) and the Green Party

Green Party of Switzerland

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 (10.7%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 65.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.2%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Ipsach about 83.4% 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

A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...

).

Ipsach has an unemployment rate of 1.42%. , there were 67 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 218 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 25 businesses in this sector. 340 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 85 businesses in this sector.
The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1764	102
1850	197
1900	238
1950	395
1970	1,480
2000	3,266