Däniken is a municipality in the district of Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

[3] Däniken has an area, as of 2009[update], of 5.41 square kilometers (2.09 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Olten district, along the Aare river.

It consists of the village sections of Eich, Neu-Däniken and Hagnau.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Ploughshare Argent.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (2,330 or 89.5%), with Turkish being second most common (71 or 2.7%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (58 or 2.2%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Däniken is; 161 children or 6.2% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 416 teenagers or 16.0% 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 39.87% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 992 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.0%.

[8] There were 1,532 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.9% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 20, of which 16 were in agriculture and 4 were in forestry or lumber production.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1,182 of which 645 or (54.6%) were in manufacturing, 5 or (0.4%) were in mining and 86 (7.3%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 315 or 47.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 169 or 25.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 22 or 3.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 43 or 6.5% were in the information industry, 14 or 2.1% were the insurance or financial industry, 22 or 3.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 29 or 4.4% were in education and 5 or 0.8% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 901 or 34.6% were Roman Catholic, while 851 or 32.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The education system in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten.

All the lower secondary students from Däniken attend their school in a neighboring municipality.