Mörel-Filet
Introduction '''Mörel-Filet''' is a municipality in the district of Östlich Raron in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It was formed on 1.January 2009 when Mörel and Filet were merged.
History Mörel is first mentioned in 1203 as ''Morgi''. Throughout the Middle Ages Filet was known as ''Gifrisch''. It was first mentioned in 1374 as ''Gifris''.
Geography Mörel-Filet has an area, , of . Of this area, 18.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 51.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 23.5% is unproductive land.
Demographics Mörel-Filet has a population () of . , 10.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of -6.1%. It has changed at a rate of -3.5% due to migration and at a rate of -3.3% due to births and deaths.Most of the population () speaks German (95.0%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (1.5%) and French is the third (0.7%)., the population was 49.8% male and 50.2% female. The population was made up of 297 Swiss men (43.9% of the population) and 40 (5.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 309 Swiss women (45.6%) and 31 (4.6%) non-Swiss women., children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.5%.The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 2.6%.
Historic population The historical population is given in the following chart:Colors=  id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9)  id:darkgrey  value:gray(0.8)ImageSize  = width:1100 height:500PlotArea   = height:350 left:100 bottom:90 right:100Legend     = columns:3 left:220 top:70 columnwidth:160AlignBars  = justifyDateFormat = x.yPeriod     = from:0 till:680TimeAxis   = orientation:verticalAlignBars  = justifyScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0Colors= id:MO     value:yellowgreen      legend:Morel id:FI     value:green          legend:FiletPlotData=  color:yellowgreen width:30   mark:(line,white) align:center  bar:1850 from: 0 till:210 text:"210" color:MO  bar:1860 from: 0 till:220 text:"220" color:MO  bar:1870 from: 0 till:229 text:"229" color:MO  bar:1880 from: 0 till:289 text:"289" color:MO  bar:1890 from: 0 till:273 text:"273" color:MO  bar:1900 from: 0 till:327 text:"327" color:MO  bar:1910 from: 0 till:324 text:"324" color:MO  bar:1920 from: 0 till:326 text:"326" color:MO  bar:1930 from: 0 till:342 text:"342" color:MO  bar:1940 from: 0 till:384 text:"384" color:MO  bar:1950 from: 0 till:433 text:"433" color:MO  bar:1960 from: 0 till:456 text:"456" color:MO  bar:1970 from: 0 till:501 text:"501" color:MO  bar:1980 from: 0 till:541 text:"541" color:MO  bar:1990 from: 0 till:523 text:"523" color:MO  bar:2000 from: 0 till:524 text:"524" color:MO  bar:1850 from: 210 till:310 text:"100" color:FI  bar:1860 from: 220 till:358 text:"138" color:FI  bar:1870 from: 229 till:340 text:"111" color:FI  bar:1880 from: 289 till:418 text:"129" color:FI  bar:1890 from: 273 till:407 text:"134" color:FI  bar:1900 from: 327 till:447 text:"120" color:FI  bar:1910 from: 324 till:464 text:"140" color:FI  bar:1920 from: 326 till:446 text:"120" color:FI  bar:1930 from: 342 till:462 text:"120" color:FI  bar:1940 from: 384 till:500 text:"116" color:FI  bar:1950 from: 433 till:541 text:"108" color:FI  bar:1960 from: 456 till:577 text:"121" color:FI  bar:1970 from: 501 till:600 text:"99" color:FI  bar:1980 from: 541 till:626 text:"85" color:FI  bar:1990 from: 523 till:650 text:"127" color:FI  bar:2000 from: 524 till:676 text:"152" color:FI
Economy , Mörel-Filet had an unemployment rate of 2.9%. , there were 21 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 62 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 13 businesses in this sector. 271 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 33 businesses in this sector.Of the working population, 18.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 44.8% used a private car.
References
External links *  Official website