Grellingen

Grellingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 20.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 57.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 3.3% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 12.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.6%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.5% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 54.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 5.4% is used for growing crops and 11.5% is pastures, while 3.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Laufen district. It consists of the linear village of Grellingen in the Birs river valley. ==Demographics==

Grellingen has a population () of . , 26.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 5.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (1,304 or 81.8%), with Albanian being second most common (76 or 4.8%) and Italian language being third (60 or 3.8%). There are 22 people who speak French3 people who speak Romansh9 people who speak Tamilian and 3 people who speak Urdu/Hindi. , there were 622 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 844 married individuals, 69 widows or widowers and 60 individuals who are divorced. , there were 655 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. there were 706 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 217. There were 21 single room apartments and 213 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 627 apartments (88.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 56 apartments (7.9%) were seasonally occupied and 23 apartments (3.3%) were empty. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.79%. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1080 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:1600 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:300 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:60 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1586 from:start till:27 text:"27" bar:1770 from:start till:205 text:"205" bar:1850 from:start till:512 text:"512" bar:1860 from:start till:500 text:"500" bar:1870 from:start till:815 text:"815" bar:1880 from:start till:1032 text:"1,032" bar:1888 from:start till:998 text:"998" bar:1900 from:start till:1012 text:"1,012" bar:1910 from:start till:1000 text:"1,000" bar:1920 from:start till:1030 text:"1,030" bar:1930 from:start till:1085 text:"1,085" bar:1941 from:start till:1067 text:"1,067" bar:1950 from:start till:1160 text:"1,160" bar:1960 from:start till:1399 text:"1,399" bar:1970 from:start till:1565 text:"1,565" bar:1980 from:start till:1450 text:"1,450" bar:1990 from:start till:1551 text:"1,551" bar:2000 from:start till:1595 text:"1,595" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 41.71% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (21.65%), the CVP (13.17%) and the FDP (12.85%). In the federal election, a total of 539 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.1%. ==Economy==

, Grellingen had an unemployment rate of 2.67%. , there were 7 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 4 businesses involved in this sector. 274 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 18 businesses in this sector. 231 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 50 businesses in this sector. , there were 476 workers who commuted into the municipality and 655 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 21.4% of the workforce coming into Grellingen are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 20.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 48.8% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 785 or 49.2% were Roman Catholic, while 274 or 17.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 21 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.32% of the population), there were 3 individuals (or about 0.19% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 48 individuals (or about 3.01% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 194 (or about 12.16% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist, 16 individuals who were Hindu, 1 individual who belonged to another church. 199 (or about 12.48% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 52 individuals (or about 3.26% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Grellingen about 582 or (36.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 141 or (8.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 141 who completed tertiary schooling, 62.4% were Swiss men, 27.0% were Swiss women, 8.5% were non-Swiss men. , there were 58 students in Grellingen who came from another municipality, while 53 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==