Wikon
Wikon is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. Geography. Wikon has an area, , of . Of this area, 39.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 51.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 8.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.1%) is non-productive rivers. , 51.57% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 37.44% is used for farming or pastures, while 2.05% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 4.95% is covered with buildings, 1.33% is industrial, and 2.54% is transportation  infrastructure. Demographics. Wikon has a population (as of ) of . , 172 or about 12.8% are not Swiss citizens. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -2.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (90.4%), with Albanian being second most common ( 3.3%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 1.9%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 30.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (24.3%), the FDP (20.3%) and the SPS (15.6%). The age distribution, , in Wikon is; 296 people or 21.9% of the population is 0–19  years old. 354 people or 26.2% are 20–39 years old, and 462 people or 34.2% are 40–64 years old. The senior population distribution is 169 people or 12.5% are 65–79 years old, 61 or 4.5% are 80–89 years old and 7 people or 0.5% of the population are 90+ years old. In Wikon about 66.2% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a "Fachhochschule"). Wikon has an unemployment rate of 2.54%. , there were 78 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 24  businesses involved in this sector. 509 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 10 businesses in this sector. 174 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 35 businesses in this sector. 50.6% of the population of the municipality were employed in some capacity. At the same time, females made up 41.7% of the workforce.