Municipality · canton of Zürich
Wald (ZH)
District of Hinwil. Municipality number 120 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 10’686
- km² of land
- 25.27
- residents per km²
- 423
- Canton
- Zürich
- District
- Hinwil
- Residents 2025
- 10’686+0.6% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 27.9%2’978 people
- Private households 2025
- 4’661
- Land area
- 25.27 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
- 8497, 8636, 8637
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Wald (ZH), 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.