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

[3] Hemmiken has an area, as of 2009[update], of 3.39 square kilometers (1.31 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.19 km2 (0.073 sq mi) or 5.6% is settled (buildings or roads).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, three crossed stone-cutters tools Azure.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (279 or 96.2%), with Albanian being second most common (5 or 1.7%) and English being third (3 or 1.0%).

At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss woman who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Hemmiken is; 13 children or 4.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 36 teenagers or 13.0% 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 53.86% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 112 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.0%.

[8] There were 161 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 30.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 3, of which 1 or (33.3%) were in manufacturing and 2 (66.7%) were in construction.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 46 or 15.9% were Roman Catholic, while 205 or 70.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.