Blauen, Basel-Landschaft

Blauen is first mentioned in 1147 as Blakwan. ==Geography==

Blauen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 33.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 60.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.5%. Out of the forested land, 58.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 12.9% is used for growing crops and 12.9% is pastures, while 2.7% is used for orchards or vine crops and 5.5% is used for alpine pastures. The municipality is located in the Laufen district, on the southern slope of the Blauen mountains. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Bar Sable, in chief a Mullet of the same. ==Demographics==

Blauen has a population () of . , 4.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 4.2%. Most of the population () speaks German (641 or 97.1%), with French being second most common (10 or 1.5%) and Finnish being third (2 or 0.3%). , there were 266 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 345 married individuals, 25 widows or widowers and 24 individuals who are divorced. , there were 241 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. there were 267 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 80. There were 3 single-room apartments and 115 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 238 apartments (89.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 23 apartments (8.6%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (2.2%) were empty. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:660 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:1771 from:start till:201 text:"201" bar:1850 from:start till:337 text:"337" bar:1860 from:start till:325 text:"325" bar:1870 from:start till:325 text:"325" bar:1880 from:start till:304 text:"304" bar:1888 from:start till:289 text:"289" bar:1900 from:start till:295 text:"295" bar:1910 from:start till:310 text:"310" bar:1920 from:start till:310 text:"310" bar:1930 from:start till:328 text:"328" bar:1941 from:start till:369 text:"369" bar:1950 from:start till:394 text:"394" bar:1960 from:start till:351 text:"351" bar:1970 from:start till:345 text:"345" bar:1980 from:start till:410 text:"410" bar:1990 from:start till:560 text:"560" bar:2000 from:start till:660 text:"660" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 34.46% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (24.82%), the Green Party (13.71%) and the SP (13.56%). In the federal election, a total of 296 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.0%. ==Economy==

, Blauen had an unemployment rate of 2.68%. , there were 22 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 70 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 7 businesses in this sector. 35 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 13 businesses in this sector. , there were 80 workers who commuted into the municipality and 282 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.5 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 13.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.7% used a private car. ==Religion==

of St. Martin From the , 433 or 65.6% were Roman Catholic, while 120 or 18.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, and there were 14 individuals (or about 2.12% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Islamic. There was 1 individual who was Buddhist and 89 (or about 13.48% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 2 individuals (or about 0.30% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Blauen about 279 or (42.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 78 or (11.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 78 who completed tertiary schooling, 70.5% were Swiss men, 17.9% were Swiss women, 10.3% were non-Swiss men. , there were 2 students in Blauen who came from another municipality, while 69 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==