page_title: Eglisau
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Eglisau / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Autumn's colors on Eglisau
context_page_description: Eglisau is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Eglisau has a population (as of 31 December 2018) of 5,217.  As of 2007, 16.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 33.1%.  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German  (90.3%), with Italian being second most common ( 3.0%) and Albanian being third ( 1.8%).
  In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 38.5% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the SPS (17.7%), the CSP (11.8%) and the Green Party (11%).
  The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.5%. In Eglisau about 79.8% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).
  Eglisau has an unemployment rate of 2.55%.  As of 2005, there were 97 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 30 businesses involved in this sector.  473 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 33 businesses in this sector.  703 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 108 businesses in this sector.
  The historical population is given in the following table:
caption: Autumn's Colors
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