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

Zeglingen has an area, as of 2009[update], of 7.91 square kilometers (3.05 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.49 km2 (0.19 sq mi) or 6.2% is settled (buildings or roads).

[3] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Pall Argent.

[7] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (424 or 95.1%), with Albanian being second most common (9 or 2.0%) and Italian language being third (5 or 1.1%).

[8] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female.

[6] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Zeglingen is; 37 children or 7.9% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 66 teenagers or 14.1% 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 38.96% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 195 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 54.2%.

[7] There were 238 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.4% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 19, of which 15 or (78.9%) were in manufacturing and 4 (21.1%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 9 or 37.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 16.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 7 or 29.2% were in education.

[7] From the 2000 census[update], 33 or 7.4% were Roman Catholic, while 359 or 80.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.