Buus is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
History
Buus is first mentioned in 1273 as Bus.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%. Out of the forested land, 26.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 25.5% is used for growing crops and 30.8% is pastures, while 8.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.
Demographics
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Buus has a population () of . , 7.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 9.5%.
Most of the population () speaks German (876 or 96.4%), with Albanian being second most common (15 or 1.7%) and English being third (4 or 0.4%). There is 1 person who speaks French, while no one speaks Romansh.
, there were 373 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 476 married individuals, 35 widows or widowers and 25 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 341 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.
there were 361 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 108. There were 9 single room apartments and 168 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 330 apartments (91.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 13 apartments (3.6%) were seasonally occupied and 18 apartments (5.0%) were empty. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.78%.
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Heritage sites of national significance
The Ständerhaus is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Buus is part Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 48.21% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (18.85%), the Green Party (14.74%) and the FDP (11.77%). In the federal election, a total of 379 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.3%.
Economy
, Buus had an unemployment rate of 0.87%. , there were 92 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 27 businesses involved in this sector. 32 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 78 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 29 businesses in this sector.
, there were 37 workers who commuted into the municipality and 327 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 8.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 18.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 47.1% used a private car.