Uttwil

Geschichte

Uttwil is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.GeographyUttwil has an area, of 4.34km2. Of this area, 2.29km2 or 52.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.33km2 or 30.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.7km2 or 16.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04km2 or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01km2 or 0.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 8.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.5% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.9%. Out of the forested land, 29.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 36.2% is used for growing crops, while 16.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.DemographicsUttwil has a population of, 13.9% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 18.7%. Most of the population speaks German(94.2%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.0%) and Albanian being third ( 1.0%)., the gender distribution of the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female. The population was made up of 710 Swiss men (43.0% of the population), and 130 (7.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 712 Swiss women (43.1%), and 99 (6.0%) non-Swiss women.