Duggingen

Duggingen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Duggingen is first mentioned around 1330 as Tuggingen. Duggingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 29.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 57.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, 51.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 6.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.7% is used for growing crops and 17.2% is pastures, while 3.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Laufen district, on a terrace above the last ravine of the Birs valley. It consists of the linear village of Duggingen. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Bear salient Sable, armed, langued, and in his virility Gules, on Coupeaux of the third. Duggingen has a population () of . , 14.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 29.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (1,085 or 93.4%), with French being second most common (24 or 2.1%) and Italian language being third (9 or 0.8%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh. the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 1,194 Swiss citizens (83.5% of the population), and 236 non-Swiss residents (16.5%). Of the population in the municipality, 292 or about 25.1% were born in Duggingen and lived there in 2000. There were 277 or 23.8% who were born in the same canton, while 399 or 34.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 144 or 12.4% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 13 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 12 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death.