Zeglingen
Zeglingen is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Geography. Zeglingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 48.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 45.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.2% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.6% of the area Out of the forested land, 43.7% of the total land area is heavily forested  and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.1% is used for growing crops and 27.8% is pastures, while 3.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. Coat of arms. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "Gules, a Pall Argent." Demographics. Zeglingen has a population () of . , 3.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 4%. Most of the population () speaks German (424 or 95.1%), with Albanian being second most common (9 or 2.0%) and Italian language  being third (5 or 1.1%). There is 1 person who speaks French. , the gender distribution of the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. The population was made up of 447 Swiss citizens (95.5% of the population), and 21 non-Swiss residents (4.5%) Of the population in the municipality 222 or about 49.8% were born in Zeglingen and lived there in 2000. There were 120 or 26.9% who were born in the same canton, while 74 or 16.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 29 or 6.5% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 7 live births to  Swiss citizens and were 7 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there . The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 4 and the non-Swiss population remained the same. This represents a population growth rate of 0.9%. The age distribution, , in Zeglingen is; 37 children or 7.9% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and  66 teenagers or 14.1% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 45 people or 9.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 71 people or 15.2% are between 30 and 39, 67 people or 14.3% are between 40 and 49, and 93 people or 19.9% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 63 people or 13.5% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 26 people or 5.6% who are over 80. , there were 167 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were  227 married individuals, 29 widows or widowers and 23 individuals who are divorced. , there were 182 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 41 households that consist of only one person and 17 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 184 households that answered this question, 22.3% were households made up of just one person and 2 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 67 married couples without children, 58 married couples with children There were 9 single parents with  a child or children. There were 5 households that were made up unrelated people and 2 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing. The historical population is given in the following chart: Politics. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 38.96% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (24.43%), the Green Party (16.64%) and the FDP (11.8%). In the federal election, a total of 195 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 54.2%. Economy. , Zeglingen had an unemployment rate of 1.1%. , there  were 56 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 21 businesses involved in this sector. 22 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 6 businesses in this sector. 31 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 8 businesses in this sector. There were 238 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.4% of the workforce. , there were 21 workers who commuted into the municipality and 154 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 7.3 workers leaving the municipality for  every one entering. Of the working population, 17.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 53.4% used a private car. Religion. From the , 33 or 7.4% were Roman Catholic, while 359 or 80.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, and there were 2 individuals (or about 0.45% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 9 (or about 2.02% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist and 4 individuals who were Hindu. 37 (or about 8.30% of the population) belonged to no church, are  agnostic or atheist, and 1 individuals (or about 0.22% of the population) did not answer the question. Education. In Zeglingen about 193 or (43.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 35 or (7.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a "Fachhochschule"). Of the 35 who completed tertiary schooling, 77.1% were Swiss men, 17.1% were Swiss women. , there were 5 students in Zeglingen who came from another municipality, while 30 residents attended schools outside the municipality.