Zeiningen is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in the district of
Rheinfelden in the
canton
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of
Aargau
Aargau ( ; ), more formally the Canton of Aargau (; ; ; ), is one of the Canton of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capital is Aarau.
Aargau is one of the most nort ...
in
Switzerland
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.
Geography

Zeiningen has an area, , of . Of this area, or 43.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 44.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 11.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.1% is unproductive land.
[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.4% of the area Out of the forested land, 42.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 26.7% is used for growing crops and 13.2% is pastures, while 4.0% is used for orchards or vine crops.
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Ägelsee is a small lake and nature preserve located in the municipality.
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Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Or a Vine-tree Vert fructed Azure staked proper issuant from Coupeaux of the second.''
Demographics
Zeiningen has a population () of , 10.6% of the population are foreign nationals.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung]
accessed 20 January 2010 Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 23.5%. Most of the population () speaks German
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(94.3%), with Albanian
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being second most common ( 1.5%) and Italian
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being third ( 1.1%).[Swiss Federal Statistical Office]
accessed 28-May-2010
The age distribution, , in Zeiningen is; 234 children or 10.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 251 teenagers or 11.4% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 244 people or 11.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 308 people or 14.0% are between 30 and 39, 391 people or 17.8% are between 40 and 49, and 329 people or 15.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 245 people or 11.1% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 126 people or 5.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 61 people or 2.8% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 10 people or 0.5% who are 90 and older.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bevölkerungsdaten für den Kanton Aargau und die Gemeinden (Archiv)]
accessed 20 January 2010
, there were 67 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 317 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 329 homes with 5 or more persons in the household.[ , there were 731 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household.][ there were 481 single family homes (or 48.8% of the total) out of a total of 985 homes and apartments.][Statistical Department of Canton Aargau]
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 10 empty apartments for a 1.0% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 4.2 new units per 1000 residents.[
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 30.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (19.07%), the SP (17.61%) and the FDP (13.68%). In the federal election, a total of 649 votes were cast, and the ]voter turnout
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was 41.5%.
The historical population is given in the following table:[
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Heritage sites of national significance
''Möhliner'' field, a rich collection of prehistoric items, is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Economy
, Zeiningen had an unemployment rate of 2.3%. , there were 81 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 30 businesses involved in this sector. 77 people are employed in the secondary sector
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and there are 16 businesses in this sector. 264 people are employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 60 businesses in this sector.[
there were 953 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 741 or about 77.8% of the residents worked outside Zeiningen while 165 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 377 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality. Of the working population, 15.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 57% used a private car.][
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Religion
From the , 975 or 54.3% were Roman Catholic
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, while 417 or 23.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there were 61 individuals (or about 3.39% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.[Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009]
accessed 20 January 2010
Education
In Zeiningen about 80.3% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education
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Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...
or additional higher education (either university or a ''Fachhochschule
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'').[ Of the school age population (), there are 177 students attending ]primary school
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, there are 68 students attending secondary school in the municipality.[
Zeiningen is home to the ''Gemeindebibliothek Zeiningen'' (municipal library of Zeiningen). The library has () 11,941 books or other media, and loaned out 21,464 items in the same year. It was open a total of 130 days with average of 6 hours per week during that year.Swiss Federal Statistical Office, list of libraries]
accessed 14 May 2010
References
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Cultural property of national significance in Aargau