Heimenhausen

Heimenhausen
Coat of arms
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Location of Heimenhausen
Coordinates: 47°13′N 7°42′E / 47.217°N 7.700°E / 47.217; 7.700Coordinates: 47°13′N 7°42′E / 47.217°N 7.700°E / 47.217; 7.700
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Bern
District	Oberaargau
Government
• Mayor	Verena Schertenleib-Helbling
Area
• Total	5.85 km2 (2.26 sq mi)
Elevation	455 m (1,493 ft)
Population (Dec 2015)
• Total	1,105
• Density	190/km2 (490/sq mi)
Postal code	3373
SFOS number	0977
Surrounded by	Berken, Graben, Herzogenbuchsee, Röthenbach bei Herzogenbuchsee, Walliswil bei Wangen, Wanzwil
Website	www.heimenhausen.ch SFSO statistics

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.

Heimenhausen is first mentioned in 1356 as Heimenhusen.

Heimenhausen has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 5.85 km² (2.26 sq mi). Of this area, 3.08 km² (1.19 sq mi) or 52.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.03 km² (0.78 sq mi) or 34.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.68 km² (0.26 sq mi) or 11.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km² (4.9 acres) or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02 km² (4.9 acres) or 0.3% is unproductive land.

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.

Heimenhausen (alone) has a population (as of 31 December 2015) of 1,105. As of 2007^[update], 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 (as of 2000^[update]) 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%).