Niedergösgen is a municipality in the district of Gösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

[3] Niedergösgen has an area, as of 2009[update], of 4.33 square kilometers (1.67 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Gösgen district, along the Aare river.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per bend Gules and Argent.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (3,217 or 85.2%), with Italian being second most common (175 or 4.6%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (128 or 3.4%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Niedergösgen is; 274 children or 7.3% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 659 teenagers or 17.5% are between 7 and 19.

The greatest number of single family homes (149) were built between 1946 and 1960.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] The Church and Tower is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The entire village of Schönenwer is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 37.47% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,169 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.9%.

[8] There were 1,961 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.7% of the workforce.

In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 901.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 32, of which 21 were in agriculture and 11 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 103 or 25.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 22 or 5.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 42 or 10.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 29 or 7.2% were in the information industry, 22 or 5.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 18 or 4.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 31 or 7.7% were in education and 79 or 19.7% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,763 or 46.7% were Roman Catholic, while 901 or 23.9% 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.