Ebikon

Ebikon is a municipality in the district of Lucerne-Land in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. It was first mentioned in the late ninth century as marcha Abinchova. The municipality covers about 9.7 square kilometres, of which roughly 38 percent is farmland, 24 percent forest and 30 percent settled land. It lies along the old highway between Lucerne and Zurich and consists of the linear village of Ebikon, the greater part of the Rotsee or Red Lake, the upper Ron valley known as the Rontal, and the town section of Rathausen. German is spoken by the large majority of residents, with Serbo-Croatian and Italian the next most common languages at the 2000 census, and about a fifth of the population were foreign nationals in 2007. Wikipedia gives a population of 14,066 at the end of 2020. In 2005 about 114 people worked in the primary sector, 2,293 in the secondary sector and 2,946 in the tertiary sector.