page_title: Oberwil, Basel-Landschaft
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Oberwil, Basel-Landschaft / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: coop in Oberwil Français&#160;: Centre commercial à Oberwil
context_page_description: Oberwil is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
context_section_description: As of  2007, Oberwil had an unemployment rate of 2.39%.  As of 2005, there were 171 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 23 businesses involved in this sector.  332 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 72 businesses in this sector.  2,296 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 346 businesses in this sector.  There were 4,704 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.9% of the workforce.
  In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 2,377.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 47, all of which  were in agriculture.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 332, of which 130 or (39.2%) were in manufacturing and 202 (60.8%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 1,998.  In the tertiary sector; 580 or 29.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 265 or 13.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 76 or 3.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 61 or 3.1% were in the information industry, 57 or 2.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 177 or 8.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 194 or 9.7% were in education and 268 or 13.4% were in health care.
  In 2000, there were 2,363 workers who commuted into the municipality and 3,706 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.  About 14.5% of the workforce coming into Oberwil are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.4% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work.  Of the working population, 31.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 40.6% used a private car.
caption: COOP building in Oberwil
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