Country Switzerland District n.a. Elevation 452 m Population 1,680 (31 Dec 2008) | Canton Uri SFOS number 1214 Postal code 6462 Local time Sunday 3:11 PM | |
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Surrounded by Altdorf, Attinghausen, Flüelen, Isenthal Website www.seedorf-uri.ch
SFSO statistics Weather 5°C, Wind N at 5 km/h, 69% Humidity | ||
Seedorf is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.
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Map of Seedorf, Switzerland
Geography
Seedorf has an area, as of 2006, of 15.5 km2 (6.0 sq mi). Of this area, 19.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 40.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (34.9%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). In the 1993/97 land survey, 38.6% of the total land area was heavily forested, while 0.7% is covered in small trees and shrubbery. Of the agricultural land, 0.3% is used for farming or pastures, while 9.0% is used for orchards or vine crops and 10.0% is used for alpine pastures. Of the settled areas, 2.0% is covered with buildings, 0.1% is industrial, 0.3% is classed as special developments, 0.8% is listed as parks and greenbelts and 2.2% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.3% is unproductive standing water (ponds or lakes), 1.6% is unproductive flowing water (rivers), 21.6% is too rocky for vegetation, and 11.4% is other unproductive land.
Demographics
Seedorf has a population (as of 31 December 2015) of 1,807. As of 2007, 4.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 12.1%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (97.2%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.3%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 0.3%). As of 2007 the gender distribution of the population was 50.5% male and 49.5% female.
In the 2007 federal election the FDP party received 91.1% of the vote.
In Seedorf about 67.7% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
Seedorf has an unemployment rate of 0.5%. As of 2005, there were 77 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 21 businesses involved in this sector. 156 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 20 businesses in this sector. 119 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 34 businesses in this sector.
The historical population is given in the following table: