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

In 1312, it was mentioned as Nydern Capellen to distinguish it from the village of Oberkappelen, now Kestenholz.

[3] Kappel has an area, as of 2009[update], of 5.09 square kilometers (1.97 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.94 km2 (0.36 sq mi) or 18.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.

[4] The municipality is located in the Olten district, in the Dünnern valley, north-west of Mt.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (2,324 or 93.5%), with French being second most common (29 or 1.2%) and Albanian being third (29 or 1.2%).

[9] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Kappel is; 167 children or 6.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 448 teenagers or 18.0% are between 7 and 19.

The greatest number of single family homes (113) were built between 1981 and 1990.

[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 31.99% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,062 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 54.6%.

[8] There were 1,395 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.4% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 69 or 31.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 35 or 16.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 21 or 9.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 5 or 2.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 14 or 6.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 18 or 8.2% were in education and 21 or 9.6% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,371 or 55.1% were Roman Catholic, while 562 or 22.6% 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.

All the lower secondary students from Kappel attend their school in a neighboring municipality.