Titterten

Geschichte

Titterten is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.GeographyTitterten has an area, of 3.71km2. Of this area, 2.11km2 or 56.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.35km2 or 36.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.23km2 or 6.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01km2 or 0.3% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Out of the forested land, 34.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 20.5% is used for growing crops and 28.0% is pastures, while 8.4% is used for orchards or vine crops.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, St. Martin stantant armoured Azure, nimbed and clothed Gules and holding a sword Argent cutting his cloth in two.DemographicsTitterten has a population of., 4.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of -0.3%.Most of the population speaks German (377 or 99.2%), with French being second most common (1 or 0.3%) and English being third (1 or 0.3%)., the gender distribution of the population was 48.8% male and 51.3% female. The population was made up of 379 Swiss citizens (94.8% of the population), and 21 non-Swiss residents (5.3%) Of the population in the municipality 152 or about 40.0% were born in Titterten and lived there in 2000. There were 119 or 31.3% who were born in the same canton, while 83 or 21.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 19 or 5.0% were born outside of Switzerland.