Tecknau is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

Tecknau has an area, as of 2009[update], of 2.35 square kilometers (0.91 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.39 km2 (0.15 sq mi) or 16.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km2 (7.4 acres) or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes.

[3] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert, a Pale wavy Argent.

[7] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (726 or 85.4%), with Albanian being second most common (46 or 5.4%) and Turkish being third (24 or 2.8%).

[6] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Tecknau is; 62 children or 7.5% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 146 teenagers or 17.5% are between 7 and 19.

[7] The historical population is given in the following chart:[12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 41.94% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 214 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 45.3%.

[7] There were 457 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.6% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 7, of which 6 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 8 or 17.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 4.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 5 or 10.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 6.5% were in the information industry, 3 or 6.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 7 or 15.2% were in education and 2 or 4.3% were in health care.

[7] From the 2000 census[update], 157 or 18.5% were Roman Catholic, while 415 or 48.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

[8] As of 2000[update], there were 67 students from Tecknau who attended schools outside the municipality.