Oberems

Coat of arms

Oberems

Location of Oberems

Coordinates: 46°16′N 7°41′E / 46.267°N 7.683°ECoordinates: 46°16′N 7°41′E / 46.267°N 7.683°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Reinhard Zeiter

Area

• Total

50.27 km² (19.41 sq mi)

Elevation

1,335 m (4,380 ft)

Population (Dec 2015)

• Total

125

• Density

2.5/km² (6.4/sq mi)

Postal code

3948

SFOS number

6112

Surrounded by

Agarn, Ayer, Embd, Ergisch, Randa, Saint-Luc, Sankt Niklaus, Unterems

Website

www.oberems.ch/gemeinde/index.htm
SFSO statistics

Oberems is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Oberems is first mentioned in 1101 as superiori Emesa.

Oberems has an area, as of 2011^[update], of 84.6 square kilometers (32.7 sq mi). Of this area, 15.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 13.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and 70.8% is unproductive land.

The municipality is located in the Leuk district, on a terrace above the entrance to the Turtmann valley into the Rhone valley. It consists of the villages of Ahorn and Bodmen and several scattered hamlets, such as Gruben/Meiden.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Or a Crow displayed Sable between and above two Mullets of Five Argent and Argent from a two-peaked mountain Vert pouring water palewise wavy Azure.

Oberems has a population (as of December 2015^[update]) of 125. As of 2008^[update], 2.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. During the 10-year period from 1999 to 2009, the population changed at a rate of 0.8%. It has changed at a rate of 7.5% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths.

All of the population (as of 2000^[update]) speaks German.

As of 2008^[update], the gender distribution of the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 63 Swiss men (47.0% of the population) and 3 (2.2%) non-Swiss men. There were 67 Swiss women (50.0%) and 1 (0.7%) non-Swiss woman. Of the population in the municipality, 85 or about 68.0% were born in Oberems and lived there in 2000. There were 23 or 18.4% who were born in the same canton, while 11 or 8.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 4 or 3.2% were born outside of Switzerland.

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