Blauen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

[3] Blauen has an area, as of 2009[update], of 7.13 square kilometers (2.75 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Laufen district, on the southern slope of the Blauen mountains.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Bar Sable, in chief a Mullet of the same.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (641 or 97.1%), with French being second most common (10 or 1.5%) and Finnish being third (2 or 0.3%).

[9] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Blauen is; 36 children or 5.2% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 100 teenagers or 14.5% are between 7 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 34.46% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 296 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.0%.

[8] There were 350 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.7% of the workforce.

In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 45.

In the tertiary sector; 4 or 16.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 41.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 8.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 3 or 12.5% were in education.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 433 or 65.6% were Roman Catholic, while 120 or 18.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.