Nebikon
Nebikon is a municipality in the district of Willisau in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. History. Nebikon is first mentioned in 924 as "Nevinhova". Geography. Nebikon has an area, , of . Of this area, 38.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 39.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 20.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.1%) is non-productive rivers. , 40.05% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 35.22% is used for farming or pastures, while 2.96% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 9.95% is covered  with buildings, 4.84% is industrial, 1.34% is parks or greenbelts and 4.57% is transportation infrastructure. The municipality is located at the confluence of the Luthern and Wigger rivers. Demographics. Nebikon has a population (as of ) of . , 585 or about 25.7% are not Swiss citizens. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 1.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (84.4%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 5.2%) and Albanian being third ( 2.0%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the FDP which received 41.3% of the vote. The next three most popular  parties were the CVP (28.6%), the SVP (21%) and the SPS (4.2%). The age distribution, , in Nebikon is; 510 people or 22.4% of the population is 0–19 years old. 728 people or 32% are 20–39 years old, and 752 people or 33.1% are 40–64 years old. The senior population distribution is 198 people or 8.7% are 65–79 years old, 74 or 3.3% are 80–89 years old and 10 people or 0.4% of the population are 90+ years old. In Nebikon about 57.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional  higher education (either university or a "Fachhochschule"). Nebikon has an unemployment rate of 2.02%. , there were 46 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 388 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 19 businesses in this sector. 417 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 60 businesses in this sector. 52.3% of the population of the municipality were employed in some capacity. At the same time, females made up 39.6% of the workforce. The historical population is given in the following table: