40 to 49 and 422 people or 13.1% are 50 to 59. The senior population distribution is 389 people or 12.1% between 60 and 69 years old; 362 people or 11.2% are 70 to 79; there are 197 people or 6.1% who are from 80 to 89 and 33 people or 1.0% who are from 90 to 99. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 32.2% of the vote; the next three most popular parties were the SVP (27%), the SPS (26.8%) and the FDP (12.6%). In the town about 69.3% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either the non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). It has an unemployment rate of 1.21%, since 2005 there are 252 people employed in the primary economic sector with about 90 businesses involved in it; 456 people are employed in the secondary sector in which there are 60 businesses; 1,073 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 164 businesses. From the , 2,774 or 86.0% are Roman Catholic, while 283 or 8.8% belong to the Swiss Reformed Church; of the rest of the population, there are nine individuals (or about 0.28% ) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith, and fourteen, or about 0.43%, who belong to another Christian church. There are two persons, or approximately 0.06% of the population, who belong to another church not listed on the census; 36, i.e. 1.12% of the population belong to no church, because they are either agnostic or atheist, whilst 107 of the total ( 3.32% of the population ) did not answer the question. The historical status of the population is given in the following table: Languages Most of the population () speaks Italian as native language (90.4%), with German being second most common (7.9%) and French being third (0.7%); apart from Italian, Lombard is the native language of the majority of people, spoken in a diglossia with Italian. Lombard is also the official spoken language of the city council. Notable residents Guido Fanconi (1892 in Poschiavo – 1979), a Swiss pediatrician Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991), German writer, lived in Poschiavo from 1957–1991 Werner Lüdi (1936 in Poschiavo – 2000), a Swiss jazz saxophonist and author David Gervasi (born 1983 in Poschiavo), a decathlete Federico Lardi (born 1985 in Poschiavo), a Swiss ice hockey defenceman Evelina Raselli (born 1992