Municipality · canton of Zürich
Meilen
District of Meilen. Municipality number 156 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 14’952
- km² of land
- 11.94
- residents per km²
- 1’252
- Canton
- Zürich
- District
- Meilen
- Residents 2025
- 14’952+0.7% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 24.7%3’688 people
- Private households 2025
- 6’555
- Land area
- 11.94 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
- 8706
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Meilen, 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.