Dättlikon is a

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in the district of

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in the canton of

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in Switzerland.

History

Dättlikon is first mentioned in 1241 as ''Tetelinkhoven''.

Geography

Dättlikon has an area of . Of this area, 43% is used for agricultural purposes, while 45.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 9.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 5.6% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (3.8%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1% of the area. 9.6% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. The municipality is located on the southern terrace of

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evelvation, in the lower

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. It consists of the village of Dättlikon and the settlement Blumetshalden an der Töss.

Demographics

Dättlikon has a population (as of ) of . , 7.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51.2% male and 48.8% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 19.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (96.8%), with English being second most common ( 0.8%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.6%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 39% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the

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(19.1%), the CSP (13.2%) and the FDP (10.5%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.5%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Dättlikon about 88.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a ''

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''). There are 200 households in Dättlikon. Dättlikon has an unemployment rate of 1.43%. , there were 27 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 39 people are employed in the

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and there are 13 businesses in this sector. 38 people are employed in the

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, with 11 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 14-Aug-2009 43.8% of the working population were employed full-time, and 56.3% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009 there were 128

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and 381

Protestants Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

in Dättlikon. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 71.6% were some type of Protestant, with 70.1% belonging to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...

and 1.5% belonging to other Protestant churches. 18.5% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 1.7% belonged to another religion (not listed), 0.4% did not give a religion, and 7.8% were atheist or agnostic. The historical population is given in the following table:

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dattlikon Municipalities of the canton of Zürich