Bucheggberg District is one of the ten districts of the canton of

Solothurn Solothurn ( , ; french: Soleure ; it, Soletta ; rm, ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissens ...

in Switzerland, situated to the southwest of the canton. Together with the Wasseramt District, it forms the ''Amtei'' (electoral district) of Wasseramt-Bucheggberg. It has a population of (as of ).

Municipalities

Bucheggberg District contains the following municipalities:

Mergers

On 1 January 1961 the former municipalities of Lüterkofen and Ichertswil merged to form the new municipality of Lüterkofen-Ichertswil. On 1 January 1995 the former municipalities of Gächliwil and Lüterswil merged to form the new municipality of Lüterswil-Gächliwil.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011 On 1 January 2010 the municipalities of

Balm bei Messen Balm bei Messen was a municipality in the district of Bucheggberg in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the municipalities of Balm bei Messen, Brunnenthal and Oberramsern merged into the municipality of Messen. Histor ...

, Brunnenthal, and

Oberramsern Oberramsern was a municipality in the district of Bucheggberg in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010, the municipalities of Balm bei Messen, Brunnenthal and Oberramsern merged into the municipality of Messen. History Ober ...

merged into the municipality of Messen. On 1 January 2013, Lüsslingen and

Nennigkofen Nennigkofen is a former municipality in the district of Bucheggberg, in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. On 1 January 2013, Lüsslingen and Nennigkofen merged to form Lüsslingen-Nennigkofen.Lüsslingen-Nennigkofen Lüsslingen-Nennigkofen is a municipality in the district of Bucheggberg, in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. 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 On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Tscheppach, Brügglen,

Aetingen Aetingen is a former municipality in the district of Bucheggberg in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Aetingen, Tscheppach, Brügglen, Aetigkofen, Bibern (SO), Gossliwil, Hessigkofen, M ...

Aetigkofen Aetigkofen is a former municipality in the district of Bucheggberg in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Aetigkofen, Tscheppach, Brügglen, Aetingen, Bibern (SO), Gossliwil, Hessigkofen, ...

, Bibern (SO), Gossliwil, Hessigkofen, Mühledorf (SO), Küttigkofen and Kyburg-Buchegg merged into the municipality of Buchegg.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 13 December 2014

Geography

Bucheggberg district has an area, , of . Of this area, or 58.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 57.2% is used for growing crops, while 1.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Or three Roses Gules barbed and seeded proper in pale.''

Demographics

Bucheggberg district has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks

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(6,909 or 97.4%), with French being second most common (63 or 0.9%) and

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being third (15 or 0.2%). There are 4 people who speak Romansh. , the gender distribution of the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. The population was made up of 3,606 Swiss men (47.1% of the population) and 219 (2.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 3,639 Swiss women (47.5%) and 193 (2.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the district 2,524 or about 35.6% were born in the district and lived there in 2000. There were 1,556 or 21.9% who were born in the same canton, while 2,483 or 35.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 356 or 5.0% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 77 live births to Swiss citizens and 4 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 55 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 22 while the foreign population increased by 4. There were 4 Swiss men and 8 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 17 non-Swiss men and 17 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 34 and the non-Swiss population increased by 33 people. This represents a

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of 0.9%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010 , there were 2,935 people who were single and never married in the district. There were 3,499 married individuals, 371 widows or widowers and 287 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 There were 663 households that consist of only one person and 239 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 2,789 households that answered this question, 23.8% were households made up of just one person and 23 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 858 married couples without children, 1,035 married couples with children There were 117 single parents with a child or children. There were 35 households that were made up unrelated people and 58 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:7100 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:1400 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:280 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:6339 text:"6,339" bar:1860 from:start till:6004 text:"6,004" bar:1870 from:start till:6128 text:"6,128" bar:1880 from:start till:6422 text:"6,422" bar:1888 from:start till:6262 text:"6,262" bar:1900 from:start till:5875 text:"5,875" bar:1910 from:start till:5717 text:"5,717" bar:1920 from:start till:5839 text:"5,839" bar:1930 from:start till:5717 text:"5,717" bar:1941 from:start till:5725 text:"5,725" bar:1950 from:start till:6158 text:"6,158" bar:1960 from:start till:6169 text:"6,169" bar:1970 from:start till:5812 text:"5,812" bar:1980 from:start till:5766 text:"5,766" bar:1990 from:start till:6250 text:"6,250" bar:2000 from:start till:7092 text:"7,092"

Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the FDP which received 33.63% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (25.26%), the SP (20.85%) and the

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(9.89%). In the federal election, a total of 3,113 votes were cast, and the

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was 53.5%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office, ''Nationalratswahlen 2007: Stärke der Parteien und Wahlbeteiligung, nach Gemeinden/Bezirk/Canton''
accessed 28 May 2010

Religion

From the , 793 or 11.2% were

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, while 5,269 or 74.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 16 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.23% of the population), there were 28 individuals (or about 0.39% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 85 individuals (or about 1.20% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 32 (or about 0.45% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 9 individuals who were

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and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 723 (or about 10.19% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 135 individuals (or about 1.90% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Bucheggberg about 2,933 or (41.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 984 or (13.9%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 984 who completed tertiary schooling, 72.5% were Swiss men, 24.6% were Swiss women, 1.9% were non-Swiss men and 1.0% were non-Swiss women.

References

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