page_title: Liestal
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Liestal / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Casting plant Erzberg in Liestal, Switzerland Deutsch: Giesserei Erzberg in Liestal
context_page_description: Liestal, formerly spelled Liesthal, is the capital of Liestal District and the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland, 17 km south of Basel.
  Liestal is an industrial town with a cobbled-street Old Town.
  The official language of Liestal is German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
context_section_description: As of  2007, Liestal had an unemployment rate of 2.75%.  As of 2005, there were 160 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 26 businesses involved in this sector.  2,324 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 145 businesses in this sector.  10,189 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 824 businesses in this sector. There were 6,829 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.9% of the workforce.
  In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 10,921.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 50, of which 36 were in agriculture, 12 were in forestry or lumber production and 2 were in fishing or fisheries.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 2,204, of which 1,107 or (50.2%) were in manufacturing and 896 (40.7%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 8,667.  In the tertiary sector; 899 or 10.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 348 or 4.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 258 or 3.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 117 or 1.3% were in the information industry, 651 or 7.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 638 or 7.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 660 or 7.6% were in education and 2,819 or 32.5% were in health care.
  In 2000, there were 10,031 workers who commuted into the municipality and 3,911 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.6 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.  About 5.3% of the workforce coming into Liestal are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 25.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 35.7% used a private car.
caption: Secondary sector: casting plant Erzberg in Liestal
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