Geroldswil is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the district of

Dietikon Dietikon is the fifth biggest city of the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, after Zürich, Winterthur, Uster and Dübendorf. It is the capital of the same-named district of Dietikon and part of the Zürich metropolitan area. Geography The i ...

in the canton of

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich ...

in Switzerland, located in the

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History

Geroldswil is first mentioned in 1255 as ''Geroltzwiler''.

Geography

Geroldswil has an area of . Of this area, 27% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 42.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (5.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 36.1% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (7.9%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 3.1% of the area. 43.8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. Originally a

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(''Strassendorf'') in the ''Limmattal'', in the second half of the 20th century, Geroldswil has grown into a suburban extension of the agglomeration of Zürich.

Demographics

Geroldswil has a population (as of ) of . , the gender distribution of the population was 50.2% male and 49.8% female. , 26.72% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.Geroldswil Facts and Figures
(in German) accessed 19-Nov-2020 Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -3.9%. Most of the population () speaks German (89.8%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.9%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.9%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 44.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (17.4%), the SPS (12.7%) and the CVP (11.7%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 66.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 10.9%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Geroldswil about 78.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a '' Fachhochschule''). There are 2011 households in Geroldswil. Geroldswil has an unemployment rate of 2.5% . , there were 9 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 4 businesses involved in this sector. 450 people are employed in the

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and there are 37 businesses in this sector. 1400 people are employed in the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...

, with 187 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 05-Aug-2009 75% of the working population were employed full-time, and 25% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009 there were 1660 Catholics and 1537 Protestants in Geroldswil. In the , religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the 2000 census, 41.9% were some type of Protestant, with 40.3% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 1.6% belonging to other Protestant churches. 36.4% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 4.8% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.7% did not give a religion, and 13.5% were atheist or agnostic. The historical population is given in the following table:

Notable people

* Daniel Jositsch, law professor and Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz (SP) politician.

References

External links

Official website
* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Zürich