Demographics

Liestal district has a population of . , 24.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals.

Most of the population speaks German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 (45,694 or 84.0%), with Italian language

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 being second most common (2,607 or 4.8%) and Turkish

Turkish language

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 being third (1,102 or 2.0%). There are 573 people who speak French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and 42 people who speak Romansh.

, the gender distribution of the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 42,590 Swiss citizens (74.5% of the population), and 14,587 non-Swiss residents (25.5%) Of the population in the district 13,360 or about 24.5% were born in the Liestal district and lived there in 2000. There were 11,599 or 21.3% who were born in the same canton, while 14,741 or 27.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 12,944 or 23.8% were born outside of Switzerland.

In there were 363 live births to Swiss citizens and 159 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 355 deaths of Swiss citizens and 30 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 8 while the foreign population increased by 129. There were 37 Swiss men and 3 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 195 non-Swiss men and 201 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 173 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 134 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.5%.

The age distribution, , in the district is; 3,705 children or 6.5% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 8,013 teenagers or 14.0% are between 7 and 19. Of the adult population, 7,368 people or 12.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 7,351 people or 12.9% are between 30 and 39, 9,285 people or 16.2% are between 40 and 49, and 11,839 people or 20.7% are between 50 and 64. The senior population distribution is 7,154 people or 12.5% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 2,462 people or 4.3% who are over 80.

, there were 21,689 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 27,154 married individuals, 2,703 widows or widowers and 2,875 individuals who are divorced.

There were 7,163 households that consist of only one person and 1,424 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 23,129 households that answered this question, 31.0% were households made up of just one person and 133 were adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 6,953 married couples without children, 6,984 married couples with children There were 1,182 single parents with a child or children. There were 298 households that were made up unrelated people and 416 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing.

the average price to rent a two room apartment was about 813.00 CHF (US$650, £370, €520), a three room apartment was about 986.00 CHF (US$790, £440, €630) and a four room apartment cost an average of 1219.00 CHF (US$980, £550, €780).

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Politics

In the 2007 federal election

Swiss federal election, 2007

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 the most popular party was the SVP

Swiss People's Party

The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...

 which received 29.61% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....

 (25.8%), the FDP

FDP.The Liberals

FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....

 (17.7%) and the Green Party

Green Party of Switzerland

The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:...

 (14.53%). In the federal election, a total of 17,127 votes were cast, and the voter turnout

Voter turnout

Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

 was 48.7%.

Religion

From the , 14,265 or 26.2% were Roman Catholic, while 24,348 or 44.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church

Swiss Reformed Church

The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...

. Of the rest of the population, there were 1,260 members of an Orthodox church

Orthodox Christianity

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 (or about 2.32% of the population), there were 155 individuals (or about 0.28% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church

Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland

The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht, also known as Old Catholic Church, originally founded by the jansenists, with a later influx of discontented Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council. It has 14,000...

, and there were 1,449 individuals (or about 2.66% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 25 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who were Jewish

Judaism

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, and 3,740 (or about 6.87% of the population) who were Islam

Islam

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ic. There were 130 individuals who were Buddhist

Buddhism

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, 269 individuals who were Hindu

Hinduism

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 and 65 individuals who belonged to another church. 6,832 (or about 12.55% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic

Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable....

 or atheist

Atheism

Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...

, and 1,883 individuals (or about 3.46% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In the district about 20,624 or (37.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 6,977 or (12.8%) have completed additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule

Fachhochschule

A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...

). Of the 6,977 who completed tertiary schooling, 62.3% were Swiss men, 22.6% were Swiss women, 9.5% were non-Swiss men and 5.6% were non-Swiss women.