Duggingen
Duggingen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. History. Duggingen is first mentioned around 1330 as "Tuggingen". Geography. Duggingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 29.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 57.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, 51.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and  6.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.7% is used for growing crops and 17.2% is pastures, while 3.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Laufen district, on a terrace above the last ravine of the Birs valley. It consists of the linear village of Duggingen. Coat of arms. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "Or, a Bear salient Sable, armed, langued, and in his virility Gules, on Coupeaux of the third." Demographics. Duggingen  has a population () of . , 14.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 29.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (1,085 or 93.4%), with French being second most common (24 or 2.1%) and Italian language being third (9 or 0.8%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh. , the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 1,194 Swiss citizens (83.5% of the population), and 236 non-Swiss residents (16.5%) Of the population in the municipality 292 or about  25.1% were born in Duggingen and lived there in 2000. There were 277 or 23.8% who were born in the same canton, while 399 or 34.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 144 or 12.4% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 13 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 12 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 1 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man who  immigrated back to Switzerland and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 11 non-Swiss men and 6 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 18 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 13 people. This represents a population growth rate of 2.3%. The age distribution, , in Duggingen is; 106 children or 7.4% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 226 teenagers or 15.8% are  between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 136 people or 9.5% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 178 people or 12.4% are between 30 and 39, 292 people or 20.4% are between 40 and 49, and 307 people or 21.5% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 146 people or 10.2% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 39 people or 2.7% who are over 80. , there were 468 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 587 married individuals, 49 widows  or widowers and 58 individuals who are divorced. , there were 473 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 124 households that consist of only one person and 32 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 488 households that answered this question, 25.4% were households made up of just one person and 4 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 162 married couples without children, 160 married couples with children There were 15 single parents with a child or children. There  were 8 households that were made up unrelated people and 15 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing. The historical population is given in the following chart: Heritage sites of national significance. Angenstein Castle is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire Angenstein site is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. Politics. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 31.58% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (25.31%), the Green Party (15.42%) and the FDP (14.27%). In  the federal election, a total of 378 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 40.7%. Economy. , Duggingen had an unemployment rate of 2.17%. , there were 22 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 249 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 17 businesses in this sector. 135 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 39 businesses in this sector. There were 580 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.6% of the workforce. , there were 338 workers who commuted  into the municipality and 475 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 10.4% of the workforce coming into Duggingen are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 21.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 52.4% used a private car. Religion. From the , 502 or 43.2% were Roman Catholic, while 315 or 27.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church who belonged, there were 4 individuals (or about  0.34% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 47 individuals (or about 4.04% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 individuals (or about 0.34% of the population) who were Jewish, and 9 (or about 0.77% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist. 228 (or about 19.62% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 50 individuals (or about 4.30% of the population) did not answer the question. Transport. Duggingen sits on the Basel–Biel/Bienne line and is served  by local trains at Duggingen. Education. In Duggingen about 498 or (42.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 159 or (13.7%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a "Fachhochschule"). Of the 159 who completed tertiary schooling, 59.1% were Swiss men, 24.5% were Swiss women, 8.2% were non-Swiss men and 8.2% were non-Swiss women. , there were 349 students in Duggingen who came from another municipality, while 99 residents attended schools outside the municipality.