Schwerzenbach is a
municipality in the district of
Uster in the
canton
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of
Zürich in Switzerland, and belongs to the
Glatt Valley (German: ''Glattal'').
The municipality was first mentioned in year 1064 as ''Swerzenbach''.
Geography
Schwerzenbach has an area of . Of this area, 40.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 6.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 38.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (14%) is non-productive (rivers, etc.).
[ housing and buildings made up 26.9% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (11.7%).]
Politics
Mayor is Thomas Weber (independent, 2014).
Demographics
Schwerzenbach has a population (as of ) of . , 18.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 6.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (84.8%), with Italian being second most common (3.6%) and Albanian being third (2.0%).
Historic population is described by the following graph:SPS
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(17.5%), the CSP
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(15.4%) and the FDP (13.2%).
The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0 to 19 years old) make up 23.8% of the population, while adults (20 to 64 years old) make up 66.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 10%. In Schwerzenbach about 79.7% of the population (between age 25 and 64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education
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or additional higher education (either university or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). There are 1890 households in Schwerzenbach.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office]
accessed 14-Aug-2009 90.9% of the working population were employed full-time, and 9.1% were employed part-time.
accessed 4 August 2009Catholics
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and 1645 Protestants
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in Schwerzenbach. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the , 44.1% were some type of Protestant, with 41.1% 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 2.9% belonging to other Protestant churches. 32% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 8% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.6% did not give a religion, and 12.5% were atheist or agnostic.
Transportation
Schwerzenbach railway station is a stop of the Zürich S-Bahn on the lines S9 and S14. It is a 14-minute (S9) ride from Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
International relations
Twin towns – Sister cities
Schwerzenbach is twinned
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with:
* Aizpute
Aizpute (german: Hasenpoth) is a town in western Latvia's South Kurzeme Municipality in the valley of the Tebra River, northeast of Liepāja.
History
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, Latvia
References
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Municipalities of the canton of Zürich