Rain is a municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. Geography Rain has an area of . Of this area, 74.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 16.8% is forested. The rest of the land, (8.3%) is settled. , 16.77% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 69.64% is used for farming or pastures, while 5.31% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 5.63% is covered with buildings, 0.32% is industrial, 0.74% is classed as special developments, 0.11% is parks or greenbelts and 1.49% is transportation infrastructure. Demographics Rain has a population () of 2,214, of which 5.1% are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 30.9%. Most of the population () speaks German (96.5%), with Albanian being second most common ( 0.7%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.5%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the CVP which received 41.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (26.2%), the SVP (22.6%) and the SPS (3.9%). The age distribution in Rain is; 652 people or 28.4% of the population is 0–19 years old. 651 people or 28.4% are 20–39 years old, and 761 people or 33.2% are 40–64 years old. The senior population distribution is 175 people or 7.6% are 65–79 years old, 47 or 2% are 80–89 years old and 9 people or 0.4% of the population are 90+ years old. In Rain about 78.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). there are 637 households, of which 141 households (or about 22.1%) contain only a single individual. 110 or about 17.3% are large households, with at least five members. there were 335 inhabited buildings in the municipality, of which 252 were built only as housing, and 83 were mixed use buildings. There were 171 single family homes, 44 double family homes, and 37 multi-family homes in the municipality. Most homes were either two (120) or three (89) story structures. There were only 20 single story buildings and 23 four or more story buildings. Rain has an unemployment rate of 0.94%. , there were 156 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 52 businesses involved in this sector. 157 people are employed in