Of the rest of the land, 14.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (4.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (89.5%), with Italian being second most common (3.9%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (1.6%).

In the 2007 election, the most popular party was the SVP which received 39.8% of the vote.

In Andelfingen about 77.3% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).

[4] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] Andelfingen railway station is a stop of the S-Bahn Zürich on the lines S12, S24 and S33.