Olten (district)
Olten District is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland, situated around the city of Olten. Together with the Gösgen District, it forms the electoral district of Olten-Gösgen. It has a population of 53,721 (as of 31 December 2015).
Olten District contains the following municipalities:
On 1 January 1973 the former municipality of Grod merged into the municipality of Gretzenbach.
Olten has an area, as of 2009[update], of 80.55 square kilometers (31.10 sq mi). Of this area, 24.88 km2 (9.61 sq mi) or 30.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.43 km2 (13.29 sq mi) or 42.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 19.7 km2 (7.6 sq mi) or 24.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 1.38 km2 (0.53 sq mi) or 1.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.16 km2 (0.062 sq mi) or 0.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 11.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.3% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 41.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 29.1% is used for growing crops, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the district is flowing water.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent three Fir Trees trunked Gules issuant from a Mount of 3 Coupeaux of the second.
Olten has a population (as of December 2015[update]) of 53,721.
Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (42,187 or 86.1%), with Italian being second most common (2,130 or 4.3%) and Albanian being third (855 or 1.7%). There are 377 people who speak French and 48 people who speak Romansh.
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