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Municipality · canton of Zürich

Thalwil

District of Horgen. Municipality number 141 in the federal register.

residents, 2025
18’835
km² of land
5.51
residents per km²
3’418
Canton
Zürich
District
Horgen
Residents 2025
18’835+1.7% on 2024
Foreign residents
31.5%5’933 people
Private households 2025
8’577
Land area
5.51 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
8136, 8800

What a household pays here

Health insurance and electricity for your household in Thalwil, 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.