Horriwil

Horriwil is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Horriwil is first mentioned around 1263-64 as C. de Horgenwile. Horriwil has an area, , of . Of this area, or, 58.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 25.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% is unproductive land. Of the built-up area, housing and buildings made up 9.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 44.5% is used for growing crops and 11.8% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Wasseramt district, stretching across a gentle plain on the northwest side of the Wasseramt glacial and ground moraine zone. The plain is about above the level of the nearby Öschbach. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules on a Bend sinister a Ploughshare Azure. Horriwil has a population () of . , 2.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 1.1%. It has changed at a rate of -4% due to migration and at a rate of 4% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks German (785 or 97.9%), with French being second most common (5 or 0.6%) and Italian being third (4 or 0.5%). the gender distribution of the population was 52.1% male and 47.9% female. The population was made up of 411 Swiss men (50.2% of the population) and 16 (2.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 382 Swiss women (46.6%) and 10 (1.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 247 or about 30.8% were born in Horriwil and lived there in 2000. There were 306 or 38.2% who were born in the same canton, while 190 or 23.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 51 or 6.4% were born outside of Switzerland.