Brislach

Brislach is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. Brislach is first mentioned in 1144 as Brislacho. Brislach has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Out of the forested land, 36.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 39.6% is used for growing crops and 12.5% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Laufen district. It consists of the linear village of Brislach on the Birstal-Passwang road. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, two Battons fleury Gules in saltire. Brislach has a population () of . , 9.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 19.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (1,327 or 95.3%), with Italian language being second most common (16 or 1.1%) and Albanian being third (8 or 0.6%). There are seven people who speak French and people who speak Romansh. the gender distribution of the population was 50.8% male and 49.2% female. The population was made up of 1,454 Swiss citizens (90.1% of the population), and 160 non-Swiss residents (9.9%) Of the population in the municipality 507 or about 36.4% were born in Brislach and lived there in 2000. There were 261 or 18.8% who were born in the same canton, while 468 or 33.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 116 or 8.3% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 14 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 9 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 5 while the foreign population increased by 1.