Zuchwil is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

[3] Zuchwil has an area, as of 2009[update], of 4.63 square kilometers (1.79 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Wasseramt district, in a triangle formed by the Aare and Emme rivers and the Bleichenberg / Birchi mountains near Solothurn.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Mullet of Five and a Moon increscent Or over a Mount of 3 Coupeaux Vert.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (6,842 or 76.7%), with Italian being second most common (545 or 6.1%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (384 or 4.3%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Zuchwil is; 666 children or 7.5% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 1,291 teenagers or 14.5% are between 7 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 27.1% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,855 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 40.3%.

Employers include Bosch (Power tools), Synthes (Medical implants),[15] Scherrer (Coffeemakers) and Swissqual (Test systems for cellular networks).

[8] There were 4,746 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.3% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1,741 of which 1,403 or (80.6%) were in manufacturing and 272 (15.6%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 751 or 38.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 72 or 3.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 144 or 7.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 90 or 4.6% were in the information industry, 106 or 5.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 51 or 2.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 81 or 4.1% were in education and 401 or 20.4% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 3,011 or 33.7% were Roman Catholic, while 2,379 or 26.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The education system in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten.

257 lower secondary students attend school in Zuchwil.

The library has (as of 2008[update]) 10,427 books or other media, and loaned out 21,113 items in the same year.

It was open a total of 160 days with average of 8 hours per week during that year.