Seehof 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 Jura bernois administrative district 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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. It is the only municipality with German as its official language in the otherwise French-speaking Bernese Jura

Bernese Jura

Bernese Jura is the name for the French-speaking area of the Swiss canton of Bern, and from 2010 one of five administrative divisions of the canton....

 (Jura Bernois).

Geography

Seehof has an area of 8.4 km² (3.2 sq mi). Of this area, 32.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 63.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Demographics

Seehof has a population (as of ) of . , 2.8% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -7.7%. Unlike the rest of the district, most of the population speaks German (91.1%), with only 8.9% speaking French.

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP

Swiss People's Party

The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...

 which received 51.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the local small left-wing parties (32.8%), the CSP

Christian Social Party (Switzerland)

The Christian Social Party is a political party in Switzerland. The CSP is more social democratic than the CVP. With the moderate Christian left as its background, the CSP commits itself to social democratic and environmentalist political solutions...

 (7%) and the Green Party

Green Party of Switzerland

The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:...

 (4.3%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 39.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 49.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.4%. In Seehof about 58.4% 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...

).

Seehof has an unemployment rate of 0%. , there were 34 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. No one is employed in the secondary sector or tertiary sectors of the economy.