Municipality · canton of Zürich
Winterthur
District of Winterthur. Municipality number 230 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 120’741
- km² of land
- 68.07
- residents per km²
- 1’774
- Canton
- Zürich
- District
- Winterthur
- Residents 2025
- 120’741+0.3% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 27.1%32’664 people
- Private households 2025
- 54’824
- Land area
- 68.07 km²without lakes
- Parking
- Residents’ parking permit: CHF 710 a yearOnly without a private parking space; day and night. City of Winterthur, Parkkarten blaue Zone mit Gebühren, 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
- 8310, 8352, 8400, 8404, 8405, 8406, 8408, 8409, 8482, 8542, 8545
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Winterthur, 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.