Schübelbach is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

March District March District is a district in Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The coat of arms of the district is ''gules, an annulet sable'' — a black ring on a red background. It has a population of (as of ). The current ''Bezirksammann'' of the district is ...

in the

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Geography

Schübelbach has an area, , of . Of this area, 48.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Demographics

Schübelbach has a population (as of ) of . , 25.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 12.8%. Most of the population () speaks German (85.0%), with Albanian being second most common ( 3.6%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 3.6%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 02-Sep-2009 the gender distribution of the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female. The age distribution, , in Schübelbach is; 2,040 people or 29.0% of the population is between 0 and 19. 2,146 people or 30.5% are 20 to 39, and 2,158 people or 30.7% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 383 people or 5.4% are 65 to 74. There are 217 people or 3.1% who are 70 to 79 and 86 people or 1.22% of the population who are over 80. There are 2 people who are over 100 years old in Schübelbach.Canton Schwyz Statistics
accessed 27 August 2009 there are 2,692 households, of which 768 households (or about 28.5%) contain only a single individual. 224 or about 8.3% are large households, with at least five members. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 50.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (15.2%), the FDP (15.1%) and the SPS (14.3%). In Schübelbach about 62.7% 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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''). Schübelbach has an unemployment rate of 2.18%. , there were 194 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 84 businesses involved in this sector. 883 people are employed in the

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and there are 104 businesses in this sector. 1,072 people are employed in the

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, with 221 businesses in this sector. From the , 4,474 or 63.6% are

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, while 1,126 or 16.0% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...

. Of the rest of the population, there are 375 individuals (or about 5.33% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are less than 5 individuals who belong to another Christian church. There are 509 (or about 7.24% of the population) who are

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ic. There are 39 individuals (or about 0.55% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 284 (or about 4.04% of the population) belong to no church, are

agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. (page 56 in 1967 edition) It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to ...

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

, and 219 individuals (or about 3.12% of the population) did not answer the question.

Transportation

Schübelbach-Buttikon railway station Schübelbach-Buttikon railway station is a railway station in the Switzerland, Swiss canton of Schwyz and Schübelbach, municipality of Schübelbach. The station is located on the Lake Zurich left-bank railway line, owned by the Swiss Federal Ra ...

is a stop of the

Zurich 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, ...

service S2, between

Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

and

Ziegelbrücke Ziegelbrücke is a village situated on both sides of the Linth Channel in Switzerland. Ziegelbrücke is shared by the Municipalities of Switzerland, municipalities of Niederurnen in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Glarus (canton), Glarus an ...

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