Wildberg, Switzerland


Wildberg is a municipality in the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Geography

Wildberg has an area of. Of this area, 54.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 36.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.7% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. housing and buildings made up 4.5% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest. Of the total unproductive area, water made up 0.4% of the area. 3% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.

Demographics

Wildberg has a population of. , 7.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -2.7%. Most of the population speaks German , with French being second most common and Dutch being third.
In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 54.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CSP, the SPS and the Green Party.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers make up 26.4% of the population, while adults make up 62.5% and seniors make up 11.1%. In Wildberg about 86.4% of the population have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education. There are 332 households in Wildberg.
Wildberg has an unemployment rate of 1.46%. , there were 91 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 34 businesses involved in this sector. 40 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 12 businesses in this sector. 79 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 25 businesses in this sector. 46.2% of the working population were employed full-time, and 53.8% were employed part-time.
there were 134 Catholics and 633 Protestants in Wildberg. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the, 72.5% were some type of Protestant, with 70.4% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 2% belonging to other Protestant churches. 13.7% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 1.1% belonged to another religion, 0.2% did not give a religion, and 12.5% were atheist or agnostic.