Kilchberg is a

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in the district of Sissach in the canton of

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in Switzerland.

History

Kilchberg is first mentioned in 1226 as ''Chilhperc''.

Geography

Kilchberg has an area, , of . Of this area, or 71.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 20.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.8% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 45.3% is used for growing crops and 19.5% is pastures, while 6.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in a high valley along the upper Eital river. It consists of the

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of Kilchberg.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent, a Bendlet sable, in base two Bends sinister of the same.''

Demographics

Kilchberg has a population () of . , 2.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 44.6%.
accessed 6 March 2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(104 or 95.4%) with the rest speaking French , the gender distribution of the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. The population was made up of 123 Swiss citizens (96.9% of the population), and 4 non-Swiss residents (3.1%) Of the population in the municipality 35 or about 32.1% were born in Kilchberg and lived there in 2000. There were 34 or 31.2% who were born in the same canton, while 31 or 28.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 6 or 5.5% were born outside of Switzerland. I n there was 1 live birth to Swiss citizens and were 4 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 3 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 was 1 non-Swiss man 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 3 and the non-Swiss population increased by 1 people. This represents a

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of -1.5%. The age distribution, , in Kilchberg is; 15 children or 11.8% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 10 teenagers or 7.9% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 11 people or 8.7% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 21 people or 16.5% are between 30 and 39, 17 people or 13.4% are between 40 and 49, and 31 people or 24.4% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 17 people or 13.4% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 5 people or 3.9% who are over 80.Canton of Basel-Land Statistics
''Wohnbevölkerung nach Nationalität und Konfession per 30. September 2010'' accessed 16 February 2011 , there were 35 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 67 married individuals, 4 widows or widowers and 3 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 42 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 5 households that consist of only one person and 3 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 43 households that answered this question, 11.6% were households made up of just one person and 1 was an adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 22 married couples without children, 13 married couples with children There was one single parent with a child or children. there were 19 single family homes (or 52.8% of the total) out of a total of 36 inhabited buildings. There were 2 multi-family buildings (5.6%), along with 15 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (41.7%). Of the single family homes 7 were built before 1919, while 5 were built between 1990 and 2000.Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 there were 46 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 13. There were 1 single room apartments and 21 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 42 apartments (91.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 3 apartments (6.5%) were seasonally occupied and 1 apartments (2.2%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 30.1 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1080 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:160 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:30 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:6 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1497 from:start till:23 text:"23" bar:1680 from:start till:63 text:"63" bar:1850 from:start till:100 text:"100" bar:1860 from:start till:97 text:"97" bar:1870 from:start till:110 text:"110" bar:1880 from:start till:133 text:"133" bar:1888 from:start till:124 text:"124" bar:1900 from:start till:116 text:"116" bar:1910 from:start till:127 text:"127" bar:1920 from:start till:157 text:"157" bar:1930 from:start till:142 text:"142" bar:1941 from:start till:126 text:"126" bar:1950 from:start till:107 text:"107" bar:1960 from:start till:106 text:"106" bar:1970 from:start till:90 text:"90" bar:1980 from:start till:104 text:"104" bar:1990 from:start till:107 text:"107" bar:2000 from:start till:109 text:"109"

Heritage sites of national significance

The Reformed

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of St. Martin in Kilchberg was listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Kilchberg was listed as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. The Church of St. Martin was paid for by Rudolf Zwilchenbart in 1866 in memory of his father who had died and was buried in Kilchberg. It was built in a

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style by Paul Reber.

Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 29.58% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the

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(26.12%), the FDP (16.44%) and the SP (12.63%). In the federal election, a total of 83 votes were cast, and the

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was 75.5%.

Economy

, Kilchberg had an unemployment rate of 0.57%. , there were 16 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 2 people were employed in the

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and there was 1 business in this sector. 3 people were employed in the

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, with 2 businesses in this sector. There were 57 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 36.8% of the workforce. the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 12. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 8, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 2, all of which were in manufacturing. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 2. In the tertiary sector, 2 or 100.0% were technical professionals or scientists.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011 , there were 8 workers who commuted into the municipality and 41 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 14% used public transportation to get to work, and 50.9% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 4 or 3.7% were

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, while 91 or 83.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. There was 1 person who was

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. 9 (or about 8.26% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 4 individuals (or about 3.67% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Kilchberg about 46 or (42.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 17 or (15.6%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 17 who completed tertiary schooling, 70.6% were Swiss men, 29.4% were Swiss women. , there were 14 students from Kilchberg who attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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