Editing Basel (section)

=== Religion ===
[[File:Basler Synagoge(ws) retouched.jpg|thumb|The main synagogue of Basel]]
From the {{as of|2000|alt=2000 census}}, 41,916 or 25.2% were [[Roman Catholic]], while 39,180 or 23.5% belonged to the [[Swiss Reformed Church]]. Of the rest of the population, there were 4,567 members of an [[Orthodoxy#Christianity|Orthodox church]] (or about 2.74% of the population), 459 individuals (or about 0.28% of the population) who belonged to the [[Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland|Christian Catholic Church]] and 3,464 individuals (or about 2.08% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 12,368 individuals (or about 7.43% of the population) who were Muslim, 1,325 individuals (or about 0.80% of the population) who were Jewish, however only members of religious institutions are counted as such by the municipality, which makes the actual number of people of [[Jews in Switzerland|Jewish descent]] living in Basel considerably higher. There were 746 individuals who were [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], 947 individuals who were Hindu and 485 individuals who belonged to another church. 52,321 (or about 31.41% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or [[Atheism|atheist]], and 8,780 individuals (or about 5.27% of the population) did not answer the question.<ref name="STAT2000"/>