Hersberg

Hersberg is first mentioned in 1226 as Herisperch. ==Geography==

Hersberg has an area, , of . Of this area, or 37.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 51.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.0% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 18.6% is used for growing crops and 14.4% is pastures, while 4.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Liestal district, along the drainage divide between the Ergolz, Violenbach and Talbächli rivers. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a House affronty Gules issuant from Coupeaux Vert, Chief chequy Argent and Gules. ==Demographics==

Hersberg has a population () of . , 7.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 14%. Most of the population () speaks German (255 or 97.7%), with English being second most common (2 or 0.8%) and English being third (2 or 0.8%). There is 1 person who speaksFrench and no one who speaks Romansh. , there were 89 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 145 married individuals, 9 widows or widowers and 18 individuals who are divorced. , there were 108 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. there were 107 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 33. There was 1 single room apartments and 53 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 104 apartments (97.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 2 apartments (1.9%) were seasonally occupied and 1 apartments (0.9%) were empty. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:270 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:50 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:10 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:106 text:"106" bar:1860 from:start till:81 text:"81" bar:1870 from:start till:77 text:"77" bar:1880 from:start till:79 text:"79" bar:1888 from:start till:92 text:"92" bar:1900 from:start till:86 text:"86" bar:1910 from:start till:97 text:"97" bar:1920 from:start till:109 text:"109" bar:1930 from:start till:107 text:"107" bar:1941 from:start till:88 text:"88" bar:1950 from:start till:108 text:"108" bar:1960 from:start till:93 text:"93" bar:1970 from:start till:137 text:"137" bar:1980 from:start till:234 text:"234" bar:1990 from:start till:256 text:"256" bar:2000 from:start till:261 text:"261" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 36.83% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (21.33%), the Green Party (21.1%) and the FDP (10.25%). In the federal election, a total of 121 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.6%. ==Economy==

, Hersberg had an unemployment rate of 2.03%. , there were 13 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 4 businesses involved in this sector. 5 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 15 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 5 businesses in this sector. , there were 136 workers who commuted away from the municipality. Of the working population, 12.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.5% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 54 or 20.7% were Roman Catholic, while 147 or 56.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 5 individuals (or about 1.92% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Jewish, and 3 (or about 1.15% of the population) who were Islamic. 45 (or about 17.24% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 5 individuals (or about 1.92% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Hersberg about 117 or (44.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 51 or (19.5%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 51 who completed tertiary schooling, 60.8% were Swiss men, 33.3% were Swiss women. , there were 29 students from Hersberg who attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==