Nunningen is a municipality in the district of Thierstein in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

[3] Nunningen has an area, as of 2009[update], of 10.34 square kilometers (3.99 sq mi).

It consists of the village of Nunningen and the hamlets of Engi mit Mühle and Roderis.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Sable and Argent two Staffs fleury conterchanged in saltire.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,750 or 95.0%), with Albanian being second most common (30 or 1.6%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (10 or 0.5%).

[9] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 51.2% male and 48.8% female.

[7] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Nunningen is; 155 children or 8.4% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 338 teenagers or 18.3% are between 7 and 19.

[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 32.02% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 725 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 51.1%.

[8] There were 958 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.9% of the workforce.

In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 558.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 314 of which 214 or (68.2%) were in manufacturing and 101 (32.2%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 59 or 27.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 18 or 8.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 6 or 2.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 1.9% were in the information industry, 13 or 6.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 19 or 8.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 23 or 10.7% were in education and 62 or 28.8% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,345 or 73.0% were Roman Catholic, while 228 or 12.4% 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 Nunningen attend their school in a neighboring municipality.