Rüdlingen is first mentioned in 827 as Ruodiningun.
Geography
Rüdlingen has an area,, of. Of this area, 47.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 33.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 8.1% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. The municipality is located in the Schaffhausen district on the Rhine knee above Eglisau. With Buchberg, Rüdlingen forms an exclave of the Canton of Schaffhausen on the Rhine, bordered by the Canton of Zürich and Baden-Württemberg.
Rüdlingen has a population of 665, of which 7.2% are foreign nationals. Of the foreign population,, 53.1% are from Germany, and 46.9% are from another country. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7.9%. Most of the population speaks German, with French being second most common and English being third. The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers make up 19.7% of the population, while adults make up 65.1% and seniors make up 15.2%. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 45% of the vote. The next two most popular parties were the SP, and the FDP . In Rüdlingen about 87.4% of the population have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education. In Rüdlingen,, 2.01% of the population attend kindergarten or another pre-school, 6.5% attend a Primary School, 2.63% attend a lower level Secondary School, and 2.01% attend a higher level Secondary School. , 14.3% of the population belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and 68.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. The historical population is given in the following table:
Rüdlingen has an unemployment rate population was involved in the secondary sector of the economy while 80.9% were involved in the third. At the same time, 55.9% of the working population was employed full-time, and 44.1% was employed part-time. There were 136 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.2% of the workforce. there were 102 residents who worked in the municipality, while 223 residents worked outside Rüdlingen and 40 people commuted into the municipality for work. , there are 3 restaurants, and 1 hotel with 68 beds. The hospitality industry in Rüdlingen employs 21 people.
