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Municipality · canton of Zürich

Volketswil

District of Uster. Municipality number 199 in the federal register.

residents, 2025
19’948
km² of land
14.04
residents per km²
1’421
Canton
Zürich
District
Uster
Residents 2025
19’948+0.5% on 2024
Foreign residents
26.9%5’373 people
Private households 2025
8’283
Land area
14.04 km²without lakes
Building insurance
Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung Kanton Zürich (the canton’s own insurer).0.29 ‰ of the insured value a year: CHF 290 per CHF 1 million, plus up to CHF 10.50 federal stamp duty; the insurer does not say whether its rate includes it.GVZ, häufige Fragen Versicherung, read 12.10.2026
Mortgage lenders
10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
Postcodes
8307, 8604, 8605

What a household pays here

Health insurance and electricity for your household in Volketswil, against where you live today.

Sources: population and foreign residents on 31.12.2025 and private households 2025, Federal Statistical Office (STATPOP), on today’s municipal boundaries; municipalities, districts and land area without lakes, swisstopo swissTLMRegio; postcodes, swisstopo’s official locality register. Updated each September.