Wila is a

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in the district of Pfäffikon 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 ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

Geography

Wila has an area of . Of this area, 38.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 51.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 9.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 6.4% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (2.9%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.9% of the area. 8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. Wila is situated in the upper Töss Valley.

Demographics

Wila has a population () of 1,903, of which 9.4% are foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51% male and 49% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7.4%. Most of the population () speaks German (92.4%), with Albanian being second most common ( 1.9%) and Italian being third ( 1.1%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 51.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the

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(14%), the CSP (11.5%) and the

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(7.7%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12.3%. In Wila about 76.6% 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 726 households in Wila. Wila has an unemployment rate of 1.52%. , there were 75 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 26 businesses involved in this sector. 243 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 37 businesses in this sector. 226 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 54 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 11-Aug-2009 46.7% of the working population were employed full-time, and 53.3% were employed part-time.
Retrieved 2014-27-07. there were 331

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and 1074

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in Wila. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 63.3% were some type of Protestant, with 60.1% 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 3.2% belonging to other Protestant churches. 18.9% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 4.1% belonged to another religion (not listed), 3.2% did not give a religion, and 10.2% were atheist or agnostic.

Transportation

Wila railway station Wila railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zürich and municipality of Wila. The station is located on the Tösstal railway line and is served by Zürich S-Bahn The Zürich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Zürich) system ...

is a stop of the S-Bahn Zürich on the line S26.

References

External links

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