Schlatt has an area of. Of this area, 47.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 45.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.6% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. housing and buildings made up 2.8% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest. Of the total unproductive area, water made up 0.6% of the area. , 3% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.
Demographics
Schlatt has a population of. , 5.3% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 51.4% male and 48.6% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 12.6%. Most of the population speaks German , with Italian being second most common and Dutch being third. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 49.6% 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 27.4% of the population, while adults make up 59.8% and seniors make up 12.8%. In Schlatt about 85.3% of the population have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education. There are 224 households in Schlatt. Schlatt has an unemployment rate of 1.34%. , there were 69 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 28 businesses involved in this sector. 36 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 8 businesses in this sector. 48 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 13 businesses in this sector. 46% of the working population were employed full-time, and 54% were employed part-time. there were 94 Catholics and 440 Protestants in Schlatt. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the, 74.9% were some type of Protestant, with 66.6% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 8.4% belonging to other Protestant churches. 12.3% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 0.8% belonged to another religion, 1.1% did not give a religion, and 10.2% were atheist or agnostic.
