Diegten is a municipality in the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

[3] Diegten has an area, as of 2009[update], of 9.64 square kilometers (3.72 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 1.07 km2 (0.41 sq mi) or 11.1% is settled (buildings or roads).

[4] The municipality is located in the Waldenburg district, in the Diegter valley.

It consists of a 2 km (1.2 mi) long string of five linear villages; Ober-Diegten, Mühle-Diegten, Mittel-Diegten, Schloss-Diegten and Nieder-Diegten.

[9] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Diegten is; 108 children or 6.8% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 307 teenagers or 19.5% 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 44.67% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 520 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.1%.

[8] There were 754 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.0% of the workforce.

In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 286.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 74, of which 69 were in agriculture and 5 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 21 or 15.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 13 or 9.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 14 or 10.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.4% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 6 or 4.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 37 or 26.6% were in education and 32 or 23.0% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 228 or 16.4% were Roman Catholic, while 898 or 64.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.