Municipality · canton of Zürich
Zürich
District of Zürich. Municipality number 261 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 440’935
- km² of land
- 87.93
- residents per km²
- 5’015
- Canton
- Zürich
- District
- Zürich
- Residents 2025
- 440’935+1.0% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 34.2%150’726 people
- Private households 2025
- 213’842
- Land area
- 87.93 km²without lakes
- Parking
- Residents’ parking permit: CHF 300 a calendar yearCity of Zürich, Anwohnerparkkarte, read 12.10.2026
- 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
- 8001, 8002, 8003, 8004, 8005, 8006, 8008, 8032, 8037, 8038, 8041, 8044, 8045, 8046, 8047, 8048, 8049, 8050, 8051, 8052, 8053, 8055, 8057, 8064, 8125, 8134, 8142, 8143, 8152, 8952
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Zürich, 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.