Seuzach


Seuzach is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Geography

Seuzach has an area of. Of this area, 44.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 30.1% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. housing and buildings made up 20.4% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest. Of the total unproductive area, water 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 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 , with Italian being second most common and Albanian being third.
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, the SPS and the CSP.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers make up 22.1% of the population, while adults make up 63.1% and seniors make up 14.8%. In Seuzach about 83.7% of the population have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education. 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 and there are 71 businesses in this sector. 1299 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 174 businesses in this sector. 32.7% of the working population were employed full-time, and 67.3% were employed part-time.
there were 1819 Catholics and 3600 Protestants 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 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, 2.5% did not give a religion, and 9.7% were atheist or agnostic.

Transport

is the terminus of Zurich S-Bahn service S12, from Zurich, and is an intermediate stop on the S29, which links Winterthur and Stein am Rhein.