Sirnach

Geschichte

Sirnach is a municipality in the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.GeographySirnach has an area, of 12.41km2. Of this area, 6.69km2 or 53.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.09km2 or 24.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.37km2 or 19.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.09km2 or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.2km2 or 1.6% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 9.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 7.5%. Out of the forested land, 22.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 50.1% is used for growing crops, while 3.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 0.6% is in lakes and 0.2% is in rivers and streams.In 1997 Horben, Sirnach and Wiezikon merged with Sirnach.DemographicsSirnach has a population of, 21.0% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 8.3%. Most of the population speaks German(85.5%), with Italian being second most common ( 4.7%) and Albanian being third ( 3.0%)., the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 2,643 Swiss men (38.7% of the population), and 778 (11.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 2,747 Swiss women (40.2%), and 659 (9.7%) non-Swiss women.