Schwerzenbach (Zürich)

Geschichte

Schwerzenbach is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley (German: Glattal).GeographySchwerzenbach has an area of 2.7km2. 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%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1.1% of the area. 39.8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.PoliticsMayor is Thomas Weber (independent, 2014).DemographicsSchwerzenbach has a population 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%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 34.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (17.5%), the CSP (15.4%) and the FDP (13.2%).