Bollodingen

Bollodingen is a former municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011 it was merged with the municipality of Bettenhausen.

History
Bollodingen is first mentioned in 1266 as Bolathingen.

Geography
Bollodingen has an area,, of 1.96 km2. Of this area, 1.18 km2 or 60.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.59 km2 or 30.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.18 km2 or 9.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km2 or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.1%. 30.1% of the total land area is heavily forested. Of the agricultural land, 41.3% is used for growing crops and 18.4% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.

The municipality is located in the Önz valley.

Demographics
Bollodingen has a population (as of 31 December 2010) of 205. , 3.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 3.6%. Most of the population speaks German  (98.6%), with French being second most common ( 0.9%) and English being third ( 0.5%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 52.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (18.3%), the FDP (9.2%) and the local small left-wing parties (8.2%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.7%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Bollodingen about 84.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule).

Bollodingen has an unemployment rate of 0.93%. , there were 18 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 36 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 3 businesses in this sector. 5 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 2 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table: