Zell is a

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in the district of

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in the

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in Switzerland.

Geography

Zell has an area of . Of this area, 43.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 12.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 9.1% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (3.8%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1.7% of the area. , 12.2% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. Zell is situated in the upper

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. In Zell-

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is a Tibetan monastery, the

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. The municipality also includes the hamlet of

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Demographics

Zell has a population (as of ) of . , 17.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 50.3% male and 49.7% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 14.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (87.6%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.8%) and Albanian being third ( 1.8%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (17%), the CSP (14.1%) and the

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(8.3%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.3%. In Zell about 70% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory

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or additional higher education (either university or a ''

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''). There are 1874 households in Zell. Zell has an unemployment rate of 3.02%. , there were 134 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 35 businesses involved in this sector. 397 people are employed in the

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and there are 47 businesses in this sector. 680 people are employed in the

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, with 141 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 14-Aug-2009 52.3% of the working population were employed full-time, and 47.7% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009 there were 1138

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and 2306

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in Zell. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 54.3% were some type of Protestant, with 49.3% belonging to the

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and 5% belonging to other Protestant churches. 22.3% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 6.5% belonged to another religion (not listed), 3.1% did not give a religion, and 9.6% were atheist or agnostic.

Transportation

Zell lies on the Tösstalbahn railway that links

and

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, and the stations of Rämismühle-Zell,

and

are all within the municipality. All three stations are served by lines S11 and S26 of the

Zürich S-Bahn The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, ...

References

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