Wäldi

Geschichte

Wäldi is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.GeographyWäldi has an area, of 12.23km2. Of this area, 9.13km2 or 74.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.05km2 or 16.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.03km2 or 8.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01km2 or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.5% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.2%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.9%. Out of the forested land, 15.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 72.3% is used for growing crops, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.In 1995, Lipperswil and Sonterswil merged into Wäldi.DemographicsWäldi has a population of, 7.7% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 6.1%. Most of the population speaks German(90.7%), with Polish being second most common ( 1.4%) and French being third ( 1.2%)., the gender distribution of the population was 52.5% male and 47.5% female. The population was made up of 444 Swiss men (47.6% of the population), and 45 (4.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 416 Swiss women (44.6%), and 27 (2.9%) non-Swiss women.