most (8) were built before 1919. There were 3 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000. there were 351 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 110. There were 3 single room apartments and 146 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 327 apartments (93.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 18 apartments (5.1%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (1.7%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0.9 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Twin Town Bottens is twinned with the town of Guéreins, France. Politics In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 34.28% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (15.95%), the CVP (12.99%) and the FDP (12.11%). In the federal election, a total of 301 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 43.6%. Economy , Bottens had an unemployment rate of 3.5%. , there were 45 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 19 businesses involved in this sector. 98 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 15 businesses in this sector. 55 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 15 businesses in this sector. There were 519 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.2% of the workforce. the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 167. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 37, of which 33 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 91 of which 6 or (6.6%) were in manufacturing and 85 (93.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 39. In the tertiary sector; 7 or 17.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 5 or 12.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 4 or 10.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 7.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 10 or 25.6% were in education. , there were 82 workers who commuted into the municipality and 390 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers,