Altikon is a

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in the district of

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in the

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Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich () i ...

in Switzerland.

History

Altikon is first mentioned in 1277 as ''Altlincon''.

Geography

Altikon has an area of . Of this area, 68.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 20.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (4.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 3.5% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (3%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 2.6% of the area. 2.6% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. The village of Altikon is located on the southern bank of the

Thur Thur may refer to: *Thur (France), a river in Alsace, France *Thur (Rhine), a river in East Switzerland *Thursday, as an abbreviation *''Thur.'', taxonomic author abbreviation for French botanist Gustave Thuret Gustave Adolphe Thuret (23 May 1 ...

river. It is at the intersection of the old ''Thurtalstrasse'' (parallel to the Thur river) from Andelfingen to Frauenfeld and the main north-south road over the Thru. The municipality includes the village of Altikon and the

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of Schneit. Since 1884 it has also included Feldi and Herten (Burgstelle), which were part of Ellikon an der Thur.

Demographics

Altikon has a population (as of ) of . , 4.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51.2% male and 48.8% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 3.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.4%), with English being second most common ( 0.3%) and Spanish being third ( 0.3%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 62.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (11.8%), the

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(7.8%) and the

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(6.4%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12.1%. In Altikon about 77.9% 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 230 households in Altikon. Altikon has an unemployment rate of 0.65%. , there were 101 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 35 businesses involved in this sector. 11 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 4 businesses in this sector. 33 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 17 businesses in this sector.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 14-Aug-2009 37% of the working population were employed full-time, and 63% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009 there were 85

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and 439

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in Altikon. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 75.7% were some type of Protestant, with 74.2% 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 1.5% belonging to other Protestant churches. 12.6% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 1.1% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.8% did not give a religion, and 7.5% were atheist or agnostic. The historical population is given in the following table:

Transport

Thalheim-Altikon railway station Thalheim-Altikon railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zurich and municipality of Thalheim an der Thur. It takes its name from Thalheim and the adjoining municipality of Altikon. The station is located on the Winterthur to ...

, in the neighbouring municipality of Thalheim an der Thur, is served by Zurich S-Bahn line S29, which links

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