Regensdorf is a municipality

Municipalities of Switzerland

Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...

 in the district of Dielsdorf

Dielsdorf (district)

Dielsdorf District is a district in the northwestern part of the Swiss canton of Zürich.Since 1871 the administrative center of the district is located in Dielsdorf. Previously the district was named Bezirk Regensberg, and its capital was Regensdorf, the only city in the district....

 of the canton

Cantons of Switzerland

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 of Zurich in Switzerland

Switzerland

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. It is the biggest city in the region Furttal

Furttal

Furttal is the name of a valley region in Switzerland between Laegern and Altberg in the Dielsdorf district of the canton of Zurich.The area's name stems from the German word for ford, or furt, and is named after the crossing over the Limmat river in the community of Würenlos on the west side of...

 (ZH).

Katzensee

Katzensee

Katzensee is a lake on the border of the city of Zurich and Regensdorf in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Its surface area is 0.36 km²....

 is a lake on the border with the Affoltern

Affoltern (Zürich)

Affoltern is a quarter in the district 11 in Zurich, located in the Glatt Valley .- History and demographics :Affoltern was first mentioned in 870 as Affaltrahe, and in the 9th century it was reigned by the St...

 quarter of the city of Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

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History

Regensdorf is first mentioned in 870 as Reganesdorf. In 931 it was mentioned as Wat and in 1040 as Adalinchova.

Geography

Regensdorf has an area of 14.6 km² (5.6 sq mi). Of this area, 43.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 23.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 30.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (2.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

The municipality is located on both sides of the Furtbach (Furt stream). It consists of the villages of Watt (which in turn includes the hamlets

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 of Oberdorf, Altburg, Katzensee and Neu-Hard), Adlikon and Regensdorg (which includes the hamlets of Alt-Hard and Geissberg).

Demographics

Regensdorf has a population (as of ) of . , 31.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 16.5%. Most of the population speaks German (77.8%), with Italian being second most common ( 5.6%) and Albanian being third ( 3.9%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP

Swiss People's Party

The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...

 which received 48.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....

 (16.5%), the FDP

Free Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....

 (9.5%) and the CVP

Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland

The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 31 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 15 seats. It has one seat, that of Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss...

 (8.7%).

The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 67.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 10.6%. In Regensdorf about 65.6% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule

Fachhochschule

A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...

).

Regensdorf has an unemployment rate of 3.39%. , there were 97 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 30 businesses involved in this sector. 2418 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 163 businesses in this sector. 6321 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 626 businesses in this sector.

The historical population is given in the following table:

year	population
1468	97 23 Households
1634	553
1850	1,201
1880	1,020
1950	2,093
1970	8,566
2000	14,628

Transportation

Regensdorf-Watt railway station

Regensdorf-Watt railway station

Regensdorf-Watt is a railway station in Switzerland, situated in the municipality of Regensdorf. The station is located on the Furttal railway line and is a stop of the Zurich S-Bahn served by line S6.- External links :*...

 is a stop of the S-Bahn Zürich on the line S6

S6 (ZVV)

The S6 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund , Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Zürich and Aargau.- Route :...

. Regensdorf can be reached from Zurich with train (s-bahn) S6. There is a train every half an hour.

Upon the completion of the 4th development phase of Zurich S-Bahn network, S21 will be added to serve the line Regensdorf-Zurich. According to ZVV, S21 will go through the new DML tunnel and it won't be stopping at Zürich-Seebach

Seebach (Zürich)

Seebach is a quarter in the district 11 of Zurich, located in the Glatt Valley .It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1934....

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