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Hausjärvi is a municipality of Finland. Its seat is in Oitti.

Hausjärvi
Municipality
Hausjärven kunta Hausjärvi kommun
Coat of arms
Location of Hausjärvi in Finland
Coordinates: 60°47.2′N 025°01.5′E
Country	Finland
Region	Tavastia Proper
Sub-region	Riihimäki sub-region
Charter	1868
Seat	Oitti
Government
• Municipal manager	Pekka Määttänen
Area  (2018-01-01)[1]
• Total	398.77 km2 (153.97 sq mi)
• Land	389.80 km2 (150.50 sq mi)
• Water	8.98 km2 (3.47 sq mi)
• Rank	205th largest in Finland
Population  (2021-12-31)[2]
• Total	8,144
• Rank	119th largest in Finland
• Density	20.89/km2 (54.1/sq mi)
Population by native language [3]
• Finnish	98.1% (official)
• Swedish	0.6%
• Others	1.3%
Population by age [4]
• 0 to 14	17.1%
• 15 to 64	60.3%
• 65 or older	22.6%
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Municipal tax rate[5]	21.5%
Website	www.hausjarvi.fi

It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Tavastia Proper region. The municipality has a population of 8,144 (31 December 2021)[2] and covers an area of 398.77 square kilometres (153.97 sq mi) of which 8.98 km² (3.47 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 20.89 inhabitants per square kilometre (54.1/sq mi).

Geographically, and to some extent politically, Hausjärvi is characterized by its three population centres, Hikiä (population 1,055), Oitti (population 1,855) and Ryttylä (population 1,595). The administrative center of the municipality is Oitti, but politically there sometimes emerges debate on which centres should be developed and/or made targets of public investment.

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

History

The establishment of permanent settlement in what is now Hausjärvi is presumed to have begun around the 1300s by hunters from Janakkala. The first estates in Hausjärvi sprung up around river Puujoki, and the inhabitants were known to practice hunting as well as slash-and-burn agriculture. Metsäkansa - as Hausjärvi was known in the era around and preceding the Greater Wrath - was made a distinct chapel parish of the mother parish of Janakkala in 1611, which also prompted the construction of its first church in the same year. Hausjärvi was elevated to the status of an independent parish by imperial proclamation in 1855.[6]

The Helsinki–Hämeenlinna and Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railways marked a turning point for the sparsely populated municipality. The villages of Hyvinkää and Riihimäki, in particular, benefited heavily from becoming junction stations, and they were granted independence from Hausjärvi as market towns in 1918 and 1922, respectively. Later on, the village of Oitti, aided by its station on the Riihimäki–Lahti section, became the administrative center of the remaining parts of Hausjärvi.[6]

Geography

The first Salpausselkä cuts through Hausjärvi from the southeast to the northeast. It manifests as a wide ridge in the southeast, and reaches a height of 150 metres (490 ft) above sea level around lake Erkylänjärvi. Progressing towards the east, the ridge narrows down around Hikiä and splits in two around Oitti. The southern branch is known as Patastenmäki and reaches 135 metres (443 ft) above sea level. The ridge then decreases in height as it reaches the municipality of Kärkölä in the east. In addition, a fragmented esker reaches from Hikiä to the parish village, Lavinto, Turkhauta and Hämeenlinna, where it is known as Hattelmalanharju.[6]

The most notable river in Hausjärvi is the Puujoki, into which drains lake Pääjärvi in Lammi and Hämeenkoski.[6]

Villages

In 1967, Hausjärvi had 19 legally recognized villages (henkikirjakylät):[7]

Demographics

In 2020, 17.1% of the population of Hausjärvi was under the age of 15, 60.3% were aged 15 to 64, and 22.6% were over the age of 65. The average age was 44.6, over the national average of 43.4 but under the regional average of 45.4. Speakers of Finnish made up 96.4% of the population and speakers of Swedish made up 0.4%, while the share of speakers of foreign languages was 3.2%. Foreign nationals made up 2.5% of the total population.[8]

The chart below, describing the development of the total population of Hausjärvi from 1975-2020, encompasses the municipality's area as of 2021.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1975 7,481 —     1980 7,264 −0.59% 1985 7,434 +0.46% 1990 7,943 +1.33% 1995 8,143 +0.50%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2000 8,107 −0.09% 2005 8,419 +0.76% 2010 8,815 +0.92% 2015 8,729 −0.20% 2020 8,175 −1.30%
Source: Statistics Finland[9]

Urban areas

In 2019, out of the total population of 8,260, 5,292 people lived in urban areas and 2,897 in sparsely populated areas, while the coordinates of 71 people were unknown. This made Hausjärvi's degree of urbanization 64.6%.[10] The urban population in the municipality was divided between five urban areas as follows:[11]

#	Urban area	Population
1	Oitti	1,855
2	Ryttylä	1,595
3	Hikiä	1,055
4	Hyvinkää central locality	766[lower-alpha 1]
5	Riihimäki central locality	21[lower-alpha 2]

Economy

In 2018, 9.1% of the workforce of Hausjärvi worked in primary production (agriculture, forestry and fishing), 28.5% in secondary production (e.g. manufacturing, construction and infrastructure), and 60.0% in services. In 2019, the unemployment rate was 5.6%, and the share of pensioners in the population was 26.2%.[12]

The ten largest employers in Hausjärvi in 2019 were as follows:[13]

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

• Naie, Japan (since 1995)^{[citation needed]}
• Väike-Maarja Parish, Estonia (since 1989)[14]

Notes

References

External links

Media related to Hausjärvi at Wikimedia Commons

• Municipality of Hausjärvi – Official website
• Hyrinet – Hyvinkää–Riihimäki area portal (in Finnish)

На других языках

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[de] Hausjärvi

Hausjärvi [.mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}ˈhɑu̯sjærvi] ist eine Gemeinde im Süden Finnlands mit 8175 Einwohnern (Stand 31. Dezember 2020). Sie liegt in der Landschaft Kanta-Häme 20 km östlich der Stadt Riihimäki und 25 km nördlich von Hyvinkää. Die Entfernung zur Hauptstadt Helsinki beträgt 85 km. Hausjärvi hat drei Siedlungszentren: Oitti, der Verwaltungssitz der Gemeinde hat rund 2416 Einwohner (Ende 2005), Ryttylä 1842 und Hikiä 1135.

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- [en] Hausjärvi

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[ru] Хаусъярви

Хаусъярви (фин. Hausjärvi) — община в провинции Канта-Хяме, Финляндия. Общая площадь территории — 398,78 км², из которых 8,98 км² — вода.

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