Luthern
Luthern is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. History. Luthern is first mentioned in 1275 as "Lutrun". Geography. Luthern has an area, , of . Of this area, 47.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 47.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). , 47.49% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 46.83% is used for farming or pastures, while 1.01% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas , 1.56% is covered with buildings, 0.16% is industrial, 0.4% is classed as special developments, 0.03% is parks or greenbelts and 1.4% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.61% is unproductive flowing water (rivers) and 0.53% is other unproductive land. The municipality is located in the upper Luthern valley, in the northern "Napfgebiet". It consists of the village of Luthern and the hamlets of Luthernbad, Hofstatt and Flühlen as well as scattered farm houses. Demographics. Luthern has a population (as of ) of . , 29 or about 2.1% are not Swiss citizens. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at  a rate of -13.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.5%), with Portuguese being second most common ( 0.7%) and Albanian being third ( 0.6%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the CVP which received 65.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (17.7%), the FDP (12.8%) and the Green Party (2.2%). The age distribution, , in Luthern is; 375 people or 27.4% of the population is 0–19 years old. 332 people or 24.3% are 20–39 years old, and 417 people or 30.5% are 40–64 years old. The senior population distribution is 170 people or  12.4% are 65–79 years old, 66 or 4.8% are 80–89 years old and 9 people or 0.7% of the population are 90+ years old. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Luthern about 51.4% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a "Fachhochschule"). Luthern has an unemployment rate of 0.4%. , there were 358 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 140 businesses involved in this sector. 134 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 22 businesses in  this sector. 191 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 28 businesses in this sector. 48.4% of the population of the municipality were employed in some capacity. At the same time, females made up 37.5% of the workforce. The historical population is given in the following table: Weather. Luthern has an average of 145.1 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives of precipitation. The wettest month is June during which time Luthern receives an average of of precipitation over an average of 12.2 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is May, with  an average of 14.5, but with only of precipitation. The driest month of the year is February with an average of of precipitation over 11.6 days.