Dägerlen has an area of. Of this area, 66.9% is used for agricultural purposes, 25.2% is forested, 7.4% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. housing and buildings made up 4.4% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Water made up 0.4% of the total area. 4% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. The municipality is located on the edge of the Zürcher Weinland south of the Thur river. It includes the settlements of Dägerlen, Oberwil, Rutschwil, Berg and Bänk.
Demographics
Dägerlen has a population of. , 7.8% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51.5% male and 48.5% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 21.2%. Most of the population speaks German , with Albanian being second most common and Italian being third. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 51.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CSP, the SPS and the Green Party. The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers make up 30.3% of the population, while adults make up 59.3% and seniors make up 10.5%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Dägerlen about 81.9% of the population have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education. There are 301 households in Dägerlen. Dägerlen has an unemployment rate of 1.18%. , 78 people were employed in the primary economic sector and about 32 businesses involved in this sector; 85 people were employed in the secondary sector and there are 12 businesses in this sector; 60 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 19 businesses in this sector. 41% of the working population were employed full-time, and 59% were employed part-time. there were 133 Catholics and 643 Protestants in Dägerlen. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the, 73.6% were some type of Protestant, with 70.1% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 3.5% belonging to other Protestant churches and 12.1% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 3.7% belonged to another religion, 1.3% did not give a religion, and 9.3% were atheist or agnostic. The historical population is given in the following table:
