Zurzach District is a district in the Swiss Canton of Aargau. The district capital is Bad Zurzach. It covers the Studenland area and is located in the northeastern part of the canton. It has a population of (as of ).
Geography The Zurzach district has an area, , of . Of this area, or 43.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 39.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.8% is settled (buildings or roads). The district is situated around the confluence of the Aare and Rhine.
Demographics The Zurzach district has a population () of . , 25.7% of the population are foreign nationals.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau -Bereich 01 -Bevölkerung accessed 20 January 2010
Economy there were 15,454 workers who lived in the district. Of these, 11,295 or about 73.1% of the residents worked outside the district while 6,024 people commuted into the district for work. There was a total of 10,183 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the district.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau-Bereich 11 Verkehr und Nachrichtenwesen accessed 21 January 2010
Religion From the , 16,378 or 54.3% were Roman Catholic, while 7,440 or 24.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 65 individuals (or about 0.22% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic faith.Statistical Department of Canton Aargau - Aargauer Zahlen 2009 accessed 20 January 2010
Education Of the school age population (), there are 2,405 students attending primary school, there are 972 students attending secondary school, there are 756 students attending tertiary or university level schooling in the municipality.
Municipalities Coat of arms Municipality Population() Area, km2Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Böttstein 7.41 Döttingen 6.92 Endingen Fisibach 5.79 Full-Reuenthal 4.82 Klingnau 6.71 Koblenz 4.08 Leibstadt 6.39 Lengnau 12.67 Leuggern 13.76 Mellikon 2.71 Schneisingen 8.25 Siglistorf 5.51 Tegerfelden 7.11 Zurzach 25.99 Total 129.99
Mergers The following changes to the district's municipalities have occurred since 2000:
1 January 2014: Unterendingen merged into Endingen.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz accessed 13 December 2014
1 January 2022: Bad Zurzach, Baldingen, Böbikon, Kaiserstuhl, Rekingen, Rietheim, Rümikon and Wislikofen merged into the new municipality of Zurzach.
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