Maladers is first mentioned in 1156 as de Maladru.
Geography
Maladers has an area, of. Of this area, about 28.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 63.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.2% is settled and 3.9% is unproductive land. In the 2004/09 survey a total of or about 1.8% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of over the 1985 amount. Of the agricultural land, is used for orchards and vineyards, is fields and grasslands and consists of alpine grazing areas. Since 1985 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by. Over the same time period the amount of forested land has increased by. Rivers and lakes cover in the municipality. Before 2017, the municipality was located in the Schanfigg sub-district of the Plessur district at the entrance to the Schanfiggs valley. It consists of the haufendorf village of Maladers and the hamlets of Sax and Brandacker.
Demographics
Maladers has a population of. , 8.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 5 years the population has changed at a rate of 1.81%. The birth rate in the municipality, in 2015, was 9.9, while the death rate was 5.9 per thousand residents. , children and teenagers make up 15.4% of the population, while adults are 64.2% of the population and seniors make up 20.4%. In 2015 there were 192 single residents, 246 people who were married or in a civil partnership, 26 widows or widowers and 42 divorced residents. In 2015 there were 233 private households in Maladers with an average household size of 2.15 persons. In 2015 about 67.9% of all buildings in the municipality were single family homes. Of the 189 inhabited buildings in the municipality, in 2000, about 67.2% were single family homes and 16.9% were multiple family buildings. Additionally, about 33.9% of the buildings were built before 1919, while 12.7% were built between 1991 and 2000. In 2014 the rate of construction of new housing units per 1000 residents was 0.0%. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 2.47%. Most of the population speaks German, with Romansh being second most common and Italian being third. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray id:darkgrey value:gray ImageSize = width: auto height:200 barincrement:45 PlotArea = top:20 left:40 bottom:20 right:35 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:600 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width: 35 mark: align:center bar:1850 from:start till:253 text:"253" bar:1860 from:start till:271 text:"271" bar:1870 from:start till:288 text:"288" bar:1880 from:start till:366 text:"366" bar:1888 from:start till:346 text:"346" bar:1900 from:start till:341 text:"341" bar:1910 from:start till:387 text:"387" bar:1920 from:start till:418 text:"418" bar:1930 from:start till:407 text:"407" bar:1941 from:start till:424 text:"424" bar:1950 from:start till:448 text:"448" bar:1960 from:start till:435 text:"435" bar:1970 from:start till:454 text:"454" bar:1980 from:start till:458 text:"458" bar:1990 from:start till:513 text:"513" bar:2000 from:start till:506 text:"506" bar:2010 from:start till:498 text:"498" bar:2015 from:start till:506 text:"506"
Politics
In the 2015 federal election the most popular party was the SVP with 51.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP, the BDP and the GLP. In the federal election, a total of 165 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 39.3%. The 2015 election saw a large change in the voting when compared to 2011, though this may be unsurprising considering the small number of voters. The percentage of the vote received by the SVP increased sharply from 31.5% in 2011 to 51.2% in 2015, while the percentage that the BDP dropped from 21.8% to 14.4%. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 51.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP, the FDP and the CVP.
Maladers is classed as a bedroom community with few new residents. The municipality is part of the agglomeration of Chur. , there were a total of 88 people employed in the municipality. Of these, a total of 22 people worked in 11 businesses in the primary economic sector. The secondary sector employed 34 workers in 13 separate businesses. Finally, the tertiary sector provided 32 jobs in 15 businesses. In 2011 the unemployment rate in the municipality was 1.6%. In 2015 the average cantonal, municipal and church tax rate in the municipality for a couple with two children making was 3.9% while the rate for a single person making was 16.7%, both of which are close to the average for the canton and nationally. In 2013 the average income in the municipality per tax payer was and the per person average was, which is less than the cantonal average of and respectively and the national per tax payer average of and the per person average of.
