Lindau ZH

Lindau is a municipality in the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.HistoryLindau is first mentioned in 774 as Lintauvia.GeographyLindau has an area of 11.9km2. Of this area, 47.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 18.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 9% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (9.1%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.2% of the area. 13.7% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.The municipality if located in the western portion of the lower Kempt valley. It includes the villages of Lindau, Tagelswangen, Winterberg and Grafstal.DemographicsLindau has a population of., 18.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51% male and 49% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 33%. Most of the population speaks German (85.6%), with Italian being second most common ( 3.7%) and Serbo-Croatian being third ( 3.0%).In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (14.5%), the FDP (11.7%) and the CSP (11.1%).