Zetzwil is a

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in the district of Kulm in the canton of

Aargau Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (german: Kanton Aargau; rm, Chantun Argovia; french: Canton d'Argovie; it, Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capit ...

in Switzerland.

Geography

Zetzwil has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.2% 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 6.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. 35.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 23.4% is used for growing crops and 22.8% is pastures, while 5.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Azure a Ploughshare Argent between two Mullets of Five of the same in Chief and Coupeaux Vert.''Flags of the World.com
accessed 30-April-2010

Demographics

Zetzwil has a population () of , 8.3% 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 2.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (95.8%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 1.0%) and Italian being third ( 0.9%).
accessed 30-April-2010 The age distribution, , in Zetzwil is; 107 children or 8.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 160 teenagers or 12.7% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 168 people or 13.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 166 people or 13.2% are between 30 and 39, 209 people or 16.6% are between 40 and 49, and 182 people or 14.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 130 people or 10.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 92 people or 7.3% are between 70 and 79, there are 39 people or 3.1% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 5 people or 0.4% 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 32 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 206 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 234 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.46 individuals. , there were 479 private households (homes and apartments) in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. there were 260 single family homes (or 47.8% of the total) out of a total of 544 homes and apartments.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau
accessed 20 January 2010 There were a total of 11 empty apartments for a 2.0% vacancy rate. , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.4 new units per 1000 residents. In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 47.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (11.8%), the FDP (11.5%) and the

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(7.9%). In Zetzwil about 69.7% 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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''). Of the school age population (), there are 92 students attending

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in the municipality. The historical population is given in the following table:

Economy

, Zetzwil had an unemployment rate of 1.2%. , there were 48 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 18 businesses involved in this sector. 118 people are employed in the

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and there are 22 businesses in this sector. 338 people are employed in the

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, with 34 businesses in this sector. there were 660 workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 494 or about 74.8% of the residents worked outside Zetzwil while 308 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 474 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen
accessed 21 January 2010 Of the working population, 9.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 57.6% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 198 or 15.9% were

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, while 875 or 70.3% belonged 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 ...

.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009
accessed 20 January 2010

References

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