Liesberg is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

[3] Liesberg has an area, as of 2009[update], of 12.49 square kilometers (4.82 sq mi).

It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Liesberg and the hamlets of Riederwald and Oberrüti and the industrial development of Liesberg-Station.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Swan passant on Coupeaux of Six Gules issuant from two Fillets wavy Sable.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,069 or 93.0%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (18 or 1.6%) and French being third (17 or 1.5%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Liesberg is; 67 children or 5.5% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 185 teenagers or 15.2% are between 7 and 19.

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

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 41.15% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 482 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.5%.

[8] There were 571 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.9% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 32, of which 27 were in agriculture and 5 were in forestry or lumber production.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 571, of which 530 or (92.8%) were in manufacturing, 6 or (1.1%) were in mining and 31 (5.4%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 18 or 17.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, eight or 7.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, four or 3.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, seven or 6.7% were technical professionals or scientists, six or 5.7% were in education and 23 or 21.9% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 854 or 74.3% were Roman Catholic, while 131 or 11.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.