Wilen is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. Prior to Thurgau's 1998 reorganisation, Wilen was known as Wilen bei Wil and was part of Rickenbach bei Wil, which was then broken up into the municipalities of Rickenbach and Wilen. Geography Wilen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 20.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 2.6% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 15.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.5%. Out of the forested land, 18.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 52.4% is used for growing crops, while 3.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Demographics Wilen has a population () of . , 8.3% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of %. Most of the population () speaks German (95.4%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.6%) and English being third ( 0.6%). , the gender distribution of the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. The population was made up of 932 Swiss men (45.6% of the population), and 98 (4.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 940 Swiss women (46.0%), and 72 (3.5%) non-Swiss women. In there were 24 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 9 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 15 while the foreign population increased by 2. There were was 1 non-Swiss man who emigrated from Switzerland to another country and 3 non-Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources) was an increase of 14 and the non-Swiss population change was a decrease of 2 people. This represents a population growth rate