Ormalingen is a municipality in the district of Sissach, in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
History
Ormalingen is first mentioned in 1280 as Normendingen.
Geography
Ormalingen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, 34.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 14.8% is used for growing crops and 30.4% is pastures, while 5.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in the upper Ergolz valley on the old road over the Schafmatt pass.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess, Or, a Mullet Gules, and Azure.
Demographics
Ormalingen has a population () of . , 10.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 7.3%.
Most of the population () speaks German (1,747 or 92.9%), with Italian language being second most common (42 or 2.2%) and Albanian being third (31 or 1.6%). There are 10 people who speak French and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female. The population was made up of 1,727 Swiss citizens (89.4% of the population), and 205 non-Swiss residents (10.6%) Of the population in the municipality 548 or about 29.1% were born in Ormalingen and lived there in 2000. There were 626 or 33.3% who were born in the same canton, while 402 or 21.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 215 or 11.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 11 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 11 deaths of Swiss citizens and 2 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population decreased by 1. There were 2 Swiss men who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 2 non-Swiss men and 3 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 20 and the non-Swiss population increased by 4 people. This represents a population growth rate of 1.3%.
The age distribution, , in Ormalingen is; 94 children or 4.9% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 312 teenagers or 16.1% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 238 people or 12.3% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 238 people or 12.3% are between 30 and 39, 357 people or 18.5% are between 40 and 49, and 391 people or 20.2% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 232 people or 12.0% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 70 people or 3.6% who are over 80.
, there were 777 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 905 married individuals, 122 widows or widowers and 77 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 703 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 169 households that consist of only one person and 61 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 712 households that answered this question, 23.7% were households made up of just one person and 11 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 218 married couples without children, 259 married couples with children There were 37 single parents with a child or children. There were 9 households that were made up unrelated people and 9 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 360 single family homes (or 72.7% of the total) out of a total of 495 inhabited buildings. There were 63 multi-family buildings (12.7%), along with 49 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (9.9%) and 23 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.6%). Of the single family homes 41 were built before 1919, while 97 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (79) were built between 1971 and 1980.