Häfelfingen is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
History
Häfelfingen is first mentioned in 1358 as Hevelingen.
Geography
Häfelfingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 58.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 34.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.3% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.5%. Out of the forested land, 32.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 19.7% is used for growing crops and 32.3% is pastures, while 6.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in a side valley off the Homburger valley. It consists of the village of Häfelfingen and eleven scattered houses or small settlements.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Cauldron Sable, in chief Sable.
Demographics
Häfelfingen has a population () of . , 4.5% 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 (245 or 91.4%), with Mazedonisch being second most common (7 or 2.6%) and Spanish being third (4 or 1.5%). There is 1 person who speaks French.
, the gender distribution of the population was 51.1% male and 48.9% female. The population was made up of 256 Swiss citizens (94.8% of the population), and 14 non-Swiss residents (5.2%) Of the population in the municipality 101 or about 37.7% were born in Häfelfingen and lived there in 2000. There were 81 or 30.2% who were born in the same canton, while 53 or 19.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 31 or 11.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 death of a Swiss citizen. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 1 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man and 1 Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 2 and the non-Swiss population increased by 1 people. This represents a population growth rate of -0.4%.
The age distribution, , in Häfelfingen is; 14 children or 5.2% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 55 teenagers or 20.4% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 28 people or 10.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 21 people or 7.8% are between 30 and 39, 66 people or 24.4% are between 40 and 49, and 42 people or 15.6% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 32 people or 11.9% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 12 people or 4.4% who are over 80.
, there were 112 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 136 married individuals, 7 widows or widowers and 13 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 92 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household. There were 11 households that consist of only one person and 10 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 93 households that answered this question, 11.8% were households made up of just one person and 1 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 33 married couples without children, 39 married couples with children There were 7 single parents with a child or children. There was 1 household that was made up unrelated people and 1 household that was made some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 43 single-family homes (or 58.9% of the total) out of a total of 73 inhabited buildings. There were 6 multi-family buildings (8.2%), along with 20 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (27.4%) and 4 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.5%). Of the single-family homes 11 were built before 1919, while 2 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single-family homes (12) were built between 1971 and 1980.