Lüsslingen is a former

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in the district of Bucheggberg, in the

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. On 1 January 2013, Lüsslingen and Nennigkofen merged to form Lüsslingen-Nennigkofen.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 2 January 2013

History

Lüsslingen is first mentioned in 1251 as ''in Luslingen''.

Geography

Lüsslingen had an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 26.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 6.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land.
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 3.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.7%. Out of the forested land, 24.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 40.4% is used for growing crops and 13.5% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The former municipality is located in the Bucheggberg district, on the northern slope of Bucheggberg mountain. It is the closest municipality to

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in the Bucheggberg district.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent a Linden Tree proper issuant from a Base Vert.''

Demographics

Lüsslingen had a population () of 514.Canton Solothurn Statistical Office
, MS Excel document – ''Bevölkerungsbestand nach Gemeinden 31.12.2011'' accessed 29 May 2012 , 13.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals.
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 16.6%.
accessed 21-March-2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(420 or 94.4%), with

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being second most common (7 or 1.6%) and

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being third (5 or 1.1%). There are 3 people who speak French. , the gender distribution of the population was 49.4% male and 50.6% female. The population was made up of 221 Swiss men (42.7% of the population) and 35 (6.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 220 Swiss women (42.5%) and 42 (8.1%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 126 or about 28.3% were born in Lüsslingen and lived there in 2000. There were 133 or 29.9% who were born in the same canton, while 125 or 28.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 42 or 9.4% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 4 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population increased by 1. There was 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss man who emigrated from Switzerland to another country and 4 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 1 and the non-Swiss population remained the same. This represents a

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of 0.2%. The age distribution, , in Lüsslingen is; 25 children or 5.6% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 73 teenagers or 16.4% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 14 people or 3.1% of the population are between 20 and 24 years old. 136 people or 30.6% are between 25 and 44, and 105 people or 23.6% are between 45 and 64. The senior population distribution is 68 people or 15.3% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 24 people or 5.4% who are over 80. , there were 172 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 216 married individuals, 38 widows or widowers and 19 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 189 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. There were 55 households that consist of only one person and 12 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 193 households that answered this question, 28.5% were households made up of just one person and there were 1 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 61 married couples without children, 54 married couples with children There were 12 single parents with a child or children. There were 6 households that were made up of unrelated people and 4 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 84 single family homes (or 60.0% of the total) out of a total of 140 inhabited buildings. There were 24 multi-family buildings (17.1%), along with 24 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (17.1%) and 8 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.7%). Of the single family homes 16 were built before 1919, while 10 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (26) were built between 1946 and 1960.Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 there were 207 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 69. There were 4 single room apartments and 70 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 187 apartments (90.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 12 apartments (5.8%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (3.9%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 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:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:610 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1798 from:start till:135 text:"135" bar:1850 from:start till:254 text:"254" bar:1860 from:start till:259 text:"259" bar:1870 from:start till:243 text:"243" bar:1880 from:start till:246 text:"246" bar:1888 from:start till:262 text:"262" bar:1900 from:start till:264 text:"264" bar:1910 from:start till:302 text:"302" bar:1920 from:start till:363 text:"363" bar:1930 from:start till:396 text:"396" bar:1941 from:start till:436 text:"436" bar:1950 from:start till:491 text:"491" bar:1960 from:start till:604 text:"604" bar:1970 from:start till:516 text:"516" bar:1980 from:start till:461 text:"461" bar:1990 from:start till:483 text:"483" bar:2000 from:start till:445 text:"445"

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 40.76% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (21.46%), the SVP (20.13%) and the

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(11.43%). In the federal election, a total of 173 votes were cast, and the

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was 48.7%.

Economy

, Lüsslingen had an unemployment rate of 5.1%. , there were 21 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. 209 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 7 businesses in this sector. 40 people were employed in the

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, with 11 businesses in this sector. There were 226 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.7% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 237. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 11, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 197 of which 189 or (95.9%) were in manufacturing and 7 (3.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 29. In the tertiary sector; 4 or 13.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 20.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 4 or 13.8% were in education and 4 or 13.8% were in health care.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011 , there were 193 workers who commuted into the municipality and 162 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.2 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 12.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 54.4% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 74 or 16.6% were

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, while 285 or 64.0% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church who belonged, there were 2 individuals (or about 0.45% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 4 individuals (or about 0.90% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 17 (or about 3.82% of the population) who were

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ic. 51 (or about 11.46% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 11 individuals (or about 2.47% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Lüsslingen about 187 or (42.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 40 or (9.0%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 40 who completed tertiary schooling, 70.0% were Swiss men, 25.0% were Swiss women. , there were 64 students in Lüsslingen who came from another municipality, while 48 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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