Titterten

Titterten is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Titterten has an area, , of . Of this area, or 56.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Out of the forested land, 34.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 20.5% is used for growing crops and 28.0% is pastures, while 8.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, St. Martin statant armoured Azure, nimbed and clothed Gules and holding a sword Argent cutting his cloth in two. Titterten has a population () of . , 4.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -0.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (377 or 99.2%), with French being second most common (1 or 0.3%) and English being third (1 or 0.3%). the gender distribution of the population was 48.8% male and 51.3% female. The population was made up of 379 Swiss citizens (94.8% of the population), and 21 non-Swiss residents (5.3%) Of the population in the municipality 152 or about 40.0% were born in Titterten and lived there in 2000. There were 119 or 31.3% who were born in the same canton, while 83 or 21.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 19 or 5.0% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 5 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 6 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 1 while the foreign population increased by 1. There was 1 Swiss man who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 2 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.