Seuzach 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

Winterthur , neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell , twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria), La ...

in the

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Zürich Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...

in Switzerland.

Geography

Seuzach has an area of . 44.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.3% is forested, 30.1% is settled (buildings or roads), and the remainder (0.9%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 20.4% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (9.9%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.5% of the area. , 22.1% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.

Demographics

Seuzach has a population (as of ) of . , 9.8% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 11.1%. Most of the population () speaks German (92.5%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.1%) and Albanian being third ( 1.0%). In the 2007 election, the most popular party was the SVP which received 41.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (17.1%), the

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(13.6%) and the CSP (10.4%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 22.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.8%. In Seuzach about 83.7% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a ''

Fachhochschule A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...

''). There are 2722 households in Seuzach. Seuzach has an unemployment rate of 1.43%. , there were 82 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 25 businesses involved in this sector. 740 people are employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction. ...

and there are 71 businesses in this sector. 1299 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 174 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 14-Aug-2009 32.7% of the working population were employed full-time, and 67.3% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009 there were 1819

Catholics The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

and 3600

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 Seuzach. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 57.9% were some type of Protestant, with 54.4% 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 3.5% belonging to other Protestant churches. 26.4% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 3.3% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.5% did not give a religion, and 9.7% were atheist or agnostic.

Transport

Seuzach railway station Seuzach railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zurich and municipality of Seuzach. The station is located on the Winterthur to Etzwilen line. The station is the terminus of Zurich S-Bahn service S11, from Aarau, and is ...

is the terminus of Zurich S-Bahn service S11, from Zurich, and is an intermediate stop on the S29, which links

and Stein am Rhein.

References

External links

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