Mümliswil-Ramiswil is a municipality in the district of Thal in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
[3] Mümliswil-Ramiswil has an area, as of 2009[update], of 35.53 square kilometers (13.72 sq mi).
[4] The municipality is located in the Thal district, in the Gulden valley between the second and third Jura mountain chains.
It is the largest municipality, in terms of area, in the Canton of Solothurn.
It consists of the villages of Mümliswil and Ramiswil as well a number of hamlets and individual farm houses.
[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (2,387 or 93.5%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (70 or 2.7%) and Albanian being third (35 or 1.4%).
[9] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 51.9% male and 48.1% female.
[7] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Mümliswil-Ramiswil is; 237 children or 9.3% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 473 teenagers or 18.5% are between 7 and 19.
The greatest number of single family homes (95) were built between 1946 and 1960.
[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 41.84% of the vote.
In the federal election, a total of 1,192 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 64.2%.
[8] There were 1,253 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 159, of which 154 were in agriculture and 5 were in forestry or lumber production.
In the tertiary sector; 82 or 39.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 5.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 40 or 19.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.0% were in the information industry, 9 or 4.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 9 or 4.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 35 or 16.9% were in education and 2 or 1.0% were in health care.
[8] From the 2000 census[update], 2,066 or 80.9% were Roman Catholic, while 209 or 8.2% 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 Mümliswil-Ramiswil attend their school in a neighboring municipality.