Uttwil

Uttwil
Uttwil village
Coat of arms
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Location of Uttwil
Coordinates: 47°35′N 9°21′E / 47.583°N 9.350°E / 47.583; 9.350Coordinates: 47°35′N 9°21′E / 47.583°N 9.350°E / 47.583; 9.350
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Thurgau
District	Arbon
Area
• Total	4.34 km2 (1.68 sq mi)
Elevation	419 m (1,375 ft)
Population (Dec 2015)
• Total	1,832
• Density	420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Postal code	8592
SFOS number	4451
Surrounded by	Dozwil, Friedrichshafen (DE-BY), Hefenhofen, Immenstaad am Bodensee (DE-BY), Kesswil, Romanshorn
Website	www.uttwil.ch SFSO statistics

Uttwil is a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

Uttwil has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 4.34 square kilometers (1.68 sq mi). Of this area, 2.29 km² (0.88 sq mi) or 52.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.33 km² (0.51 sq mi) or 30.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.7 km² (0.27 sq mi) or 16.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km² (9.9 acres) or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 8.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 0.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.5% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.9%. Out of the forested land, 29.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 36.2% is used for growing crops, while 16.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.

Uttwil has a population (as of December 2015^[update]) of 1,832 As of 2008^[update], 13.9% of the population are foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 18.7%. Most of the population (as of 2000^[update]) speaks German(94.2%), with Italian being second most common ( 2.0%) and Albanian being third ( 1.0%).

As of 2008^[update], the gender distribution of the population was 50.9% male and 49.1% female. The population was made up of 710 Swiss men (43.0% of the population), and 130 (7.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 712 Swiss women (43.1%), and 99 (6.0%) non-Swiss women.