The area of the district is 581 hectares (1,440 acres). Thereof fall 65.1% upon agriculturally used area, 25.6% upon forest area, 8.6% upon settlement area and roads, and 2.2% upon other.

The territories of the following villages adjoin to Schwalldorf, they are called clockwise beginning in the north: Bad Niedernau, Weiler, Dettingen, Hirrlingen, Frommenhausen, Bieringen and Obernau (all in the admin. district of Tübingen). All bordering villages, except for Hirrlingen, are suburbs of Rottenburg am Neckar.

With a population of 781 people (31 January 2008) Schwalldorf is among the smaller districts of Rottenburg. At an area of 5.81 km² (2.2 sq mi) this corresponds to a population density of 134 people per km², or 348 per sq mi.

The population of the village is predominantly Roman Catholic. About 100 people are evangelical. A small amount are undenominational or members of another denomination.

Around 1100 Schwalldorf was mentioned for the first time on a paper of the Hirsau Abbey (ger.: Kloster Hirsau). In that document a nobleman "Fridericus de Swaldorff" (Frederic of Schwalldorf) was called. The first official reference in a deed of gift dates from 7 July 1304. Heinrich der Amman (Henry the Amman) the reeve of the Counts of Hohenberg made a present to the domician nunnery in Kirchberg. He gave them a manor in Schwalldorf. Due to that document the village celebrated its 700th anniversary in 2004.

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