page_title: Grüningen
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Grüningen / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Stedtli Grüningen (Switzerland)
context_page_description: Grüningen is a town and municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, notable for its well-preserved historic nucleus.
context_section_description: Grüningen has a population (as of 31 December 2018) of 3,475.  As of 2007, 11.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.  As of 2008 the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female.  Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 4.4%.  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German  (92.0%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.9%) and English being third ( 1.3%).
  In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 43.5% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the SPS (12.3%), the FDP (11.7%) and the CSP (11%).
  The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.4% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.8%.  The entire Swiss population is generally well educated.  In Grüningen about 75.2% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).  There are 1135 households in Grüningen.
  Grüningen has an unemployment rate of 1.36%.  As of 2005, there were 136 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 49 businesses involved in this sector.  300 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 36 businesses in this sector.  803 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 88 businesses in this sector.  As of 2007 46% of the working population were employed full-time, and 54% were employed part-time.
  As of 2008 there were 663 Catholics and 1573 Protestants in Grüningen.  In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories.  From the 2000 census, 57.7% were some type of Protestant, with 53.3% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 4.4% belonging to other Protestant churches.  25.7% of the population were Catholic.  Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 3% belonged to another religion (not listed), 2.7% did not give a religion, and 10.2% were atheist or agnostic.
  The historical population is given in the following table:
caption: Timber framing houses in the Stedtli (2010)
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