Zwingen is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

Zwingen has an area, as of 2009[update], of 4.62 square kilometers (1.78 sq mi).

[3] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Sable, two Battons fleury Argent in saltire.

[7] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,781 or 88.3%), with Italian language being second most common (43 or 2.1%) and Turkish being third (40 or 2.0%).

The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 15 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 1 people.

[6] The age distribution, as of 2010[update], in Zwingen is; 129 children or 6.0% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 347 teenagers or 16.2% are between 7 and 19.

[7] The historical population is given in the following chart:[12] The entire village of Zwingen is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 32.17% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 561 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 40.2%.

[7] There were 1,098 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.8% of the workforce.

In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 705.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 340, of which 201 or (59.1%) were in manufacturing and 133 (39.1%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 198 or 55.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 34 or 9.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 10 or 2.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 1.4% were in the information industry, 5 or 1.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 40 or 11.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 23 or 6.5% were in education and 2 or 0.6% were in health care.

[7] From the 2000 census[update], 1,161 or 57.6% were Roman Catholic, while 301 or 14.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.