Locle (district)
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Le Locle District District du Locle |
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| Country |
 Switzerland
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| Canton |
 Neuchâtel
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| Capital | Le Locle |
| Area | |
| • Total | 137.85 km2 (53.22 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 14,506 |
| • Density | 110/km2 (270/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Municipalities | 7 |
Le Locle District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The district capital of the town of Le Locle. It has a population of 14,506 (as of 31 December 2015).
The district consists of the following municipalities:
Locle has a population (as of December 2015[update]) of 14,506.
Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (13,143 or 90.0%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (449 or 3.1%) and German is the third (309 or 2.1%). There are 8 people who speak Romansh.
As of 2008[update], the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 5,456 Swiss men (38.7% of the population) and 1,490 (10.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 5,875 Swiss women (41.7%) and 1,282 (9.1%) non-Swiss women.
Of the population in the district, 5,591 or about 38.3% were born in Locle and lived there in 2000. There were 3,149 or 21.6% who were born in the same canton, while 2,136 or 14.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 3,037 or 20.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
As of 2000[update], there were 5,484 people who were single and never married in the district. There were 7,154 married individuals, 1,143 widows or widowers and 822 individuals who are divorced.
There were 2,228 households that consist of only one person and 397 households with five or more people.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 23.35% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (21.15%), the PdA Party (19.12%) and the LPS Party (17.32%). In the federal election, a total of 4,969 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 51.8%.
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