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

[3] Buckten has an area, as of 2009[update], of 1.99 square kilometers (0.77 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.34 km2 (0.13 sq mi) or 17.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km2 (4.9 acres) or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes.

[4] The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in the upper Homburger on the road to pass over the Unteren Hauenstein.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (592 or 91.9%), with Italian language being second most common (12 or 1.9%) and Albanian being third (11 or 1.7%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Buckten is; 51 children or 7.3% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 101 teenagers or 14.5% are between 7 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 38.35% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 269 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 51.7%.

[8] There were 347 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.8% of the workforce.

In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 92.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was eleven, all of which were in agriculture.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was thirteen, of which 7.7% were in manufacturing and 92.3% were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 60.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2.9% were in the information industry, 1.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 2.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 4.4% were in education and 13.2% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 14.3% were Roman Catholic, while 65.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.