Emmetten is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.
History
Emmetten is first mentioned about 1160 as Empnoten. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 3.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (91.8%), with English being second most common ( 1.8%) and Italian being third ( 1.5%). the gender distribution of the population was 53.4% male and 46.6% female.
there are 487 households, of which 310 households (or about 63.7%) contain only one or two individuals. 36 or about 7.4% are large households, with at least five members.
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 87.1% of the vote. Most of the rest of the votes went to local small right-wing parties (9.9%).
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! year
! population
|-
| 1743
| 378
|-
| 1850
| 659
|-
| 1860
| 603
|-
| 1880
| 632
|-
| 1900
| 593
|-
| 1950
| 680
|-
| 1960
| 698
|-
| 1970
| 631
|-
| 1980
| 715
|-
| 1990
| 1,013
|-
| 2000
| 1,222
|-
| 2005
| 1,184
|-
|}
Industry
Emmetten has an unemployment rate of 0.94%. , there were 75 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 27 businesses involved in this sector. 38 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 9 businesses in this sector. 198 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 42 businesses in this sector.