Ettingen (Swiss German: Ettige) is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

[3] Ettingen has an area, as of 2009[update], of 6.35 square kilometers (2.45 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 1.09 km2 (0.42 sq mi) or 17.2% is settled (buildings or roads).

[4] The municipality is located in the Arlesheim district, in the southern Leimen valley.

It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Ettingen which has become a commuter town for the agglomeration of Basel.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (4,324 or 90.8%), with Italian language being second most common (111 or 2.3%) and English being third (84 or 1.8%).

The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 33 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 17 people.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Ettingen is; 276 children or 5.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 686 teenagers or 14.1% 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 29.44% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,710 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.7%.

[8] There were 2,547 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.8% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 30, of which 23 were in agriculture and 7 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 126 or 31.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 24 or 6.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 24 or 6.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 1.8% were in the information industry, 11 or 2.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 37 or 9.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 34 or 8.6% were in education and 63 or 15.9% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 2,161 or 45.4% were Roman Catholic, while 1,517 or 31.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.