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

[3] Itingen has an area, as of 2009[update], of 3.14 square kilometers (1.21 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in the mid-Ergolz valley.

The old village center is located perpendicular to the old cantonal road and to the left of the Basel-Olten rail line.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Fish nainaint winged Argent.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,441 or 89.1%), with Italian language being second most common (60 or 3.7%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (41 or 2.5%).

[9] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 50.5% male and 49.5% female.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Itingen is; 119 children or 6.4% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 259 teenagers or 13.9% are between 7 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] The entire village of Itingen 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 29.97% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 650 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 51.3%.

[8] There were 916 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.5% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 3, of which 2 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 47 or 6.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 158 or 21.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 16 or 2.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 1.1% were in the information industry, 480 or 64.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 14 or 1.9% were in education and 9 or 1.2% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 404 or 25.0% were Roman Catholic, while 889 or 54.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.