Buus

This article is about Swiss municipality. For people with the Buus surname, see Buus (surname).

Buus
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Buus
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Coordinates: 47°30′N7°52′E / 47.500°N 7.867°E / 47.500; 7.867
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Basel-Landschaft
District	Sissach
Area [1]
• Total	8.85 km2 (3.42 sq mi)
Elevation	445 m (1,460 ft)
Population  (31 December 2018) [2]
• Total	1,066
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	4463
SFOS number	2844
Surrounded by	Hellikon (AG), Hemmiken, Maisprach, Ormalingen, Rickenbach, Wintersingen, Zeiningen (AG), Zuzgen (AG)
Website	buus.ch SFSO statistics

Buus is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

History

Buus is first mentioned in 1273 as Bus. ^[3]

Geography

View of Buus from Farnsburg Mountain

Aerial view (1953)

Buus has an area, as of 2009 ^[update] , of 8.85 square kilometers (3.42 sq mi). Of this area, 5.71 km² (2.20 sq mi) or 64.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.52 km² (0.97 sq mi) or 28.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.64 km² (0.25 sq mi) or 7.2% is settled (buildings or roads). ^[4]

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%. Out of the forested land, 26.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 25.5% is used for growing crops and 30.8% is pastures, while 8.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. ^[4]

The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in a depression on the north foot of Farnsberg mountain. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Buus.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Vine Vert fructed Azure entwined around a Rod Gules attached by two rings Or issuant from a Base Sable. ^[5]

Demographics

Buus village

Buus has a population (as of June 2021 ^[update] ) of 1,110. ^[6] As of 2008 ^[update] , 7.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. ^[7] Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 9.5%. ^[8]

Most of the population (as of 2000 ^[update] ) speaks German (876 or 96.4%), with Albanian being second most common (15 or 1.7%) and English being third (4 or 0.4%). There is 1 person who speaks French, while no one speaks Romansh. ^[9]

As of 2008 ^[update] , the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 876 Swiss citizens (92.2% of the population), and 74 non-Swiss residents (7.8%) ^[10] Of the population in the municipality 395 or about 43.5% were born in Buus and lived there in 2000. There were 185 or 20.4% who were born in the same canton, while 250 or 27.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 73 or 8.0% were born outside of Switzerland. ^[9]

In 2008 ^[update] there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and were 6 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 2 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man and 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men 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 a decrease of 18 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 4 people. This represents a population growth rate of -2.3%. ^[7]

The age distribution, as of 2010 ^[update] , in Buus is; 64 children or 6.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 140 teenagers or 14.7% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 96 people or 10.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 100 people or 10.5% are between 30 and 39, 181 people or 19.1% are between 40 and 49, and 202 people or 21.3% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 122 people or 12.8% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 45 people or 4.7% who are over 80. ^[10]

As of 2000 ^[update] , there were 373 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 476 married individuals, 35 widows or widowers and 25 individuals who are divorced. ^[9]

As of 2000 ^[update] , there were 341 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. ^[8] There were 75 households that consist of only one person and 39 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 346 households that answered this question, 21.7% were households made up of just one person and 6 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 111 married couples without children, 134 married couples with children There were 9 single parents with a child or children. There were 6 households that were made up unrelated people and 5 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing. ^[9]

In 2000 ^[update] there were 163 single family homes (or 59.9% of the total) out of a total of 272 inhabited buildings. There were 31 multi-family buildings (11.4%), along with 68 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (25.0%) and 10 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.7%). Of the single family homes 29 were built before 1919, while 59 were built between 1990 and 2000. ^[11]

In 2000 ^[update] there were 361 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 108. There were 9 single room apartments and 168 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 330 apartments (91.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 13 apartments (3.6%) were seasonally occupied and 18 apartments (5.0%) were empty. ^[11] As of 2007 ^[update] , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. ^[8] As of 2000 ^[update] the average price to rent a two-room apartment was about 661.00 CHF (US$530, £300, €420), a three-room apartment was about 1071.00 CHF (US$860, £480, €690) and a four-room apartment cost an average of 1375.00 CHF (US$1100, £620, €880). ^[12] The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2008 ^[update] , was 0.78%. ^[8]

The historical population is given in the following chart: ^{[3] [13]}

Heritage sites of national significance

The Ständerhaus is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Buus is part Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. ^[14]

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 48.21% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (18.85%), the Green Party (14.74%) and the FDP (11.77%). In the federal election, a total of 379 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.3%. ^[15]

Economy

As of  2007 ^[update] , Buus had an unemployment rate of 0.87%. As of 2005 ^[update] , there were 92 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 27 businesses involved in this sector. 32 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 78 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 29 businesses in this sector. ^[8] There were 482 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.6% of the workforce.

In 2008 ^[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 147. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 60, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 39, of which 4 or (10.3%) were in manufacturing and 35 (89.7%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 48. In the tertiary sector; 7 or 14.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 4.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 9 or 18.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 10.4% were in the information industry, 7 or 14.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 7 or 14.6% were in education and 1 or 2.1% were in health care. ^[16]

In 2000 ^[update] , there were 37 workers who commuted into the municipality and 327 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 8.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. ^[17] Of the working population, 18.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 47.1% used a private car. ^[8]

Religion

Church in Buus

From the 2000 census ^[update] , 122 or 13.4% were Roman Catholic, while 633 or 69.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 5 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.55% of the population), there were 10 individuals (or about 1.10% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 10 individuals (or about 1.10% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Jewish, and 23 (or about 2.53% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 person who was Buddhist. 96 (or about 10.56% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 8 individuals (or about 0.88% of the population) did not answer the question. ^[9]

Education

In Buus about 371 or (40.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 107 or (11.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule ). Of the 107 who completed tertiary schooling, 70.1% were Swiss men, 20.6% were Swiss women, 4.7% were non-Swiss men and 4.7% were non-Swiss women. ^[9]

As of 2000 ^[update] , there was one student in Buus who came from another municipality, while 88 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ^[17]

References

1. "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
2. "Ständige Wohnbevölkerung nach Staatsangehörigkeitskategorie Geschlecht und Gemeinde; Provisorische Jahresergebnisse; 2018". Federal Statistical Office. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
3. Buus in German , French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland .
4. Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data (in German) accessed 25 March 2010
5. Flags of the World.com accessed 4 March 2011
6. Canton of Basel-Land Statistics, Wohnbevölkerung nach Nationalität und Konfession per 30. Juni 2021 (in German) accessed 22 September 2021
7. Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008 Archived 28 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in German) accessed 19 June 2010
8. Swiss Federal Statistical Office Archived 5 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine accessed 4 March 2011
9. STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000 Archived 9 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in German) accessed 2 February 2011
10. Canton of Basel-Land Statistics, Wohnbevölkerung nach Nationalität und Konfession per 30. September 2010(in German) accessed 16 February 2011
11. Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen Archived 21 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in German) accessed 28 January 2011
12. Canton of Basel-Land Statistics Archived 7 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine , Mieter- und Genossenschafterwohnungen1 nach Zimmerzahl und Mietpreis 2000(in German) accessed 20 February 2011
13. Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach Region, 1850-2000 Archived 30 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in German) accessed 29 January 2011
14. "Kantonsliste A-Objekte:Basel-Landschaft" (PDF). KGS Inventar (in German). Federal Office of Civil Protection. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
15. Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Nationalratswahlen 2007: Stärke der Parteien und Wahlbeteiligung, nach Gemeinden/Bezirk/Canton Archived 14 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in German) accessed 28 May 2010
16. Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3 Archived 25 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in German) accessed 28 January 2011
17. Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb ^{[ permanent dead link ]}(in German) accessed 24 June 2010

External links

• Official website (in German)
• Buus in German , French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland .