Heimenhausen is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
On January 1, 2009, the municipalities of Wanzwil and Röthenbach bei Herzogenbuchsee became part of the Municipality of Heimenhausen.BSG 152.01 BAG 08-59 Die Justizkommission des Grossen Rats des Kantons Bern (Justice Commission of the High Council of Canton Bern) decision of 29 April 2008. accessed 16 July 2009
History Heimenhausen is first mentioned in 1356 as Heimenhusen.
Geography Heimenhausen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 34.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.2% of the area 33.8% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 36.1% is used for growing crops and 15.7% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
Demographics Heimenhausen (alone) has a population (as of ) of . , 3.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -9.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.5%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 0.7%) and French being third ( 0.2%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 50% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (14.5%), the SPS (12.1%) and the local small left-wing parties (8.8%).
The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 29.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 55.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.2%. About 82% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
Heimenhausen has an unemployment rate of 1.52%. , there were 34 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. 2 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 2 businesses in this sector. 31 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 6 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 20-Jul-2009 The historical population is given in the following table: year population 1764 192 1850 388 1900 416 1950 343 1980 287 2000 453
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