Turbenthal 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

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located in the canton of

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in Switzerland.

Geography

Turbenthal has an area of . Of this area, 34.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 57.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 7.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 4.3% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (2.8%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.3% of the area. , 4.8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. Turbenthal is situated in the upper

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Demographics

Turbenthal has a population (as of ) of . , 16.2% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 50.2% male and 49.8% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 0.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (88.1%), with Italian being second most common ( 3.8%) and Albanian being third ( 1.8%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 43.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the

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(18.3%), the CSP (13.5%) and the

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(10.8%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12.3%. In Turbenthal about 69.6% 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 1540 households in Turbenthal. Turbenthal has an unemployment rate of 2.39%. , there were 150 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 59 businesses involved in this sector. 368 people are employed in the

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and there are 49 businesses in this sector. 834 people are employed in the

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, with 133 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 14-Aug-2009 39.6% of the working population were employed full-time, and 60.4% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009 there were 840

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and 2031

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 Turbenthal. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 54.1% were some type of Protestant, with 50.3% 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 3.7% belonging to other Protestant churches. 23.3% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 7.8% belonged to another religion (not listed), 4.1% did not give a religion, and 9.6% were atheist or agnostic.

Transportation

Turbenthal railway station Turbenthal railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zurich. The station is situated in the municipality of Turbenthal. It is located on the Tösstalbahn between Winterthur and Rapperswil Rapperswil (Swiss German: or ;Andr ...

is a stop on the Zurich S-Bahn service S26.

Economy

Turbental is the home of Schlossberg Textil AG, a manufacturer of bed linen.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Zürich