| Subject Name: | Schlatt bei Winterthur |
| Municipality Type: | municipality |
| Canton: | Zurich |
| Iso-Code-Region: | CH-ZH |
| Coordinates: | 47.4667°N 58°W |
| Postal Code: | 8418 |
| Municipality Code: | 0226 |
| Area: | 9.03 |
| Elevation: | 656 |
| Website: | www.schlatt-zh.ch |
Schlatt bei Winterthur is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Schlatt has an area of 9.1km2. Of this area, 47.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 45.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 2.8% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (2.9%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.6% of the area., 3% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.
Schlatt has a population (as of) of ., 5.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51.4% male and 48.6% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 12.6%. Most of the population speaks German (96.4%), with Italian being second most common (1.0%) and Dutch being third (1.0%).
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 49.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CSP (12.5%), the SPS (11.4%) and the Green Party (11%).
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12.8%. In Schlatt about 85.3% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). There are 224 households in Schlatt.
Schlatt has an unemployment rate of 1.34%., there were 69 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 28 businesses involved in this sector. 36 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 8 businesses in this sector. 48 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 13 businesses in this sector.[1] 46% of the working population were employed full-time, and 54% were employed part-time.[2]
there were 94 Catholics and 440 Protestants in Schlatt. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the, 74.9% were some type of Protestant, with 66.6% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 8.4% belonging to other Protestant churches. 12.3% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 0.8% belonged to another religion (not listed), 1.1% did not give a religion, and 10.2% were atheist or agnostic.[2]