Urdorf

Urdorf is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley. In 1931 Niederurdorf and Oberurdorf were excluded from the Zürich District to form the municipality of Urdorf. It has an area of 7.6 square kilometres, of which 32.2 percent is used for farming, 32.6 percent is forested and 34.5 percent is settled land. At the end of 2020 it had a population of 10,019, and in 2007 about 18.9 percent of residents were foreign nationals. Most of the population spoke German in the 2000 data, at 85.7 percent, with Italian the second most common language, and in the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP with 40.4 percent of the vote.