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

[3] Gelterkinden has an area, as of 2009[update], of 9.79 square kilometers (3.78 sq mi).

It consists of the village of Gelterkinden and more than 20 other settlements including Sommerau, which has its own train station.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Trierced per pale, Azure, Argent and Gules.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (4,805 or 87.7%), with Italian language being second most common (173 or 3.2%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (120 or 2.2%).

[9] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 48.7% male and 51.3% female.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Gelterkinden is; 351 children or 6.1% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 865 teenagers or 15.1% are between 7 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] The entire village of Gelterkinden is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 28.99% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 2,005 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 52.2%.

[8] There were 2,780 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.1% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 27, of which 26 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 369, of which 107 or (29.0%) were in manufacturing and 251 (68.0%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 354 or 26.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 105 or 8.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 33 or 2.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 11 or 0.8% were in the information industry, 46 or 3.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 113 or 8.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 208 or 15.8% were in education and 299 or 22.7% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,248 or 22.8% were Roman Catholic, while 2,946 or 53.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.