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

[3] Dulliken has an area, as of 2009[update], of 6.06 square kilometers (2.34 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 1.65 km2 (0.64 sq mi) or 27.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km2 (9.9 acres) or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes.

[4] The municipality is located in the Olten district, on the northern slope of Engelberg mountain.

It consists of the village of Dulliken, the settlement of Schachen and farm houses on the mountain.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Jackdaw Sable sitting on a Garland of Leaves Vert.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (3,653 or 79.2%), with Italian being second most common (423 or 9.2%) and Turkish being third (183 or 4.0%).

[9] On the other hand, it underestimates the importance of the Albanian language in the village.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Dulliken is; 355 children or 7.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 850 teenagers or 18.4% 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 35.74% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,212 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.6%.

[8] There were 2,358 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.3% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 311 or 47.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 93 or 14.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 31 or 4.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 1.1% were the insurance or financial industry, 13 or 2.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 40 or 6.1% were in education and 78 or 11.9% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 2,070 or 44.9% were Roman Catholic, while 1,149 or 24.9% 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.

The library has (as of 2008[update]) 13,201 books or other media, and loaned out 48,407 items in the same year.

It was open a total of 240 days with average of 14 hours per week during that year.