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Känerkinden is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the district of
Sissach Sissach () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality and the capital of the district of Sissach (district), Sissach in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland. History Sissach is first mentioned around 1225-26 as ' ...
in the canton of
Basel-Country Canton of Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country, informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (; ; ; ; ), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of five districts and its capital city is Liestal. It is traditional ...
in
Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...
.


History

Känerkinden is first mentioned in 1359 as ''Kennichingen''.


Geography

Känerkinden has an area, , of . Of this area, or 68.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 13.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.5% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.4% of the area. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 52.0% is used for growing crops and 7.4% is pastures, while 8.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in a small depression in the
Jura Mountains The Jura Mountains ( ) are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the French–Swiss border. While the Jura range proper (" folded Jura", ) is located in France and Switzerla ...
between the Diegter valley and the Homburger valley.


Coat of arms

The
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of the municipal
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is ''Azure, a Sun Or, in base a Plough Argent.''


Demographics

Känerkinden has a population () of . , 8.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010
Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -0.2%.
accessed 6 March 2011
Most of the population () speaks
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(443 or 91.5%), with
Italian language Italian (, , or , ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. It evolved from the colloquial Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent language from Latin, together with Sardinian language, Sardinian. It is ...
being second most common (16 or 3.3%) and
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being third (8 or 1.7%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh. , the gender distribution of the population was 51.1% male and 48.9% female. The population was made up of 446 Swiss citizens (90.1% of the population), and 49 non-Swiss residents (9.9%) Of the population in the municipality 127 or about 26.2% were born in Känerkinden and lived there in 2000. There were 139 or 28.7% who were born in the same canton, while 135 or 27.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 80 or 16.5% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 3 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 3 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland and 1 non-Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 4 and the non-Swiss population increased by 7 people. This represents a
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of 0.6%. The age distribution, , in Känerkinden is; 34 children or 6.9% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 68 teenagers or 13.7% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 35 people or 7.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 45 people or 9.1% are between 30 and 39, 82 people or 16.6% are between 40 and 49, and 132 people or 26.7% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 68 people or 13.7% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 31 people or 6.3% who are over 80.Canton of Basel-Land Statistics
''Wohnbevölkerung nach Nationalität und Konfession per 30. September 2010'' accessed 16 February 2011
, there were 176 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 273 married individuals, 15 widows or widowers and 20 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 195 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 46 households that consist of only one person and 12 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 196 households that answered this question, 23.5% were households made up of just one person and 1 was an adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 71 married couples without children, 66 married couples with children There were 3 single parents with a child or children. There were 8 households that were made up unrelated people and 1 household that was made some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 132 single family homes (or 80.0% of the total) out of a total of 165 inhabited buildings. There were 15 multi-family buildings (9.1%), along with 16 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (9.7%) and 2 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (1.2%). Of the single family homes 3 were built before 1919, while 34 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (38) were built between 1981 and 1990.Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011
there were 202 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 63. There was 1 single room apartments and 97 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 189 apartments (93.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 8 apartments (4.0%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (2.5%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. the average price to rent a two-room apartment was about .00 CHF (US$0, £0, €0), a three-room apartment was about 858.00 CHF (US$690, £390, €550) and a four-room apartment cost an average of .00 CHF (US$0, £0, €0).Canton of Basel-Land Statistics
, ''Mieter- und Genossenschafterwohnungen1 nach Zimmerzahl und Mietpreis 2000'' accessed 20 February 2011
The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.49%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1140 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:490 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1680 from:start till:92 text:"92" bar:1698 from:start till:107 text:"107" bar:1770 from:start till:142 text:"142" bar:1850 from:start till:190 text:"190" bar:1860 from:start till:209 text:"209" bar:1870 from:start till:180 text:"180" bar:1880 from:start till:203 text:"203" bar:1888 from:start till:190 text:"190" bar:1900 from:start till:199 text:"199" bar:1910 from:start till:195 text:"195" bar:1920 from:start till:201 text:"201" bar:1930 from:start till:204 text:"204" bar:1941 from:start till:207 text:"207" bar:1950 from:start till:211 text:"211" bar:1960 from:start till:219 text:"219" bar:1970 from:start till:255 text:"255" bar:1980 from:start till:301 text:"301" bar:1990 from:start till:395 text:"395" bar:2000 from:start till:484 text:"484"


Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 35.81% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (21.09%), the FDP (16.12%) and the
Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as environmentalism and social justice. Green party platforms typically embrace Social democracy, social democratic economic policies and fo ...
(13.81%). In the federal election, a total of 209 votes were cast, and the
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was 54.3%.


Economy

, Känerkinden had an unemployment rate of 2.22%. , there were 14 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 6 people were employed in the
secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...
and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 18 people were employed in the
tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...
, with 8 businesses in this sector. There were 251 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.8% of the workforce. the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 34. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 11, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 4, of which or (0.0%) were in manufacturing and 4 (100.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 19. In the tertiary sector; 1 or 5.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 31.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 10.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 36.8% were in education.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011
, there were 8 workers who commuted into the municipality and 210 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 26.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 16.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 64.5% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 92 or 19.0% were
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, while 306 or 63.2% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.41% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.41% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 10 individuals (or about 2.07% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 14 (or about 2.89% of the population) who were
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ic and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 54 (or about 11.16% of the population) belonged to no church, are
agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. (page 56 in 1967 edition) It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to ...
or
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
, and 3 individuals (or about 0.62% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In Känerkinden about 202 or (41.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory
upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...
, and 76 or (15.7%) have completed additional higher education (either
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or a ''
Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...
''). Of the 76 who completed tertiary schooling, 57.9% were Swiss men, 14.5% were Swiss women, 19.7% were non-Swiss men and 7.9% were non-Swiss women. , there were 13 students in Känerkinden who came from another municipality, while 47 residents attended schools outside the municipality.


References


External links


Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kanerkinden Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft