Volketswil
Sign in to saveVolketswil is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The municipality in the agglomeration of Zurich includes the villages of Volketswil, Hegnau, Zimikon, Kindhausen and Gutenswil.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Volketswil
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Hotel Zürich - Fluntern - Schwerzenbach-Volketswil - Uetlibergturm IMG 1560.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Volketswil COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Volketswil Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Zurich
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-ZH
- Swiss town.district
- Uster
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8604
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0199
- Swiss town.area
- 14.00
- Swiss town.elevation
- 470
- Swiss town.website
- www.volketswil.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Dübendorf, Fehraltorf, Greifensee, Illnau-Effretikon, Lindau, Schwerzenbach, Uster, Wangen-Brüttisellen
- Swiss town.twintowns
- Gadmen (Switzerland)
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Volketswil is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The municipality in the agglomeration of Zurich includes the villages of Volketswil, Hegnau, Zimikon, Kindhausen and Gutenswil.
==Geography== thumb|Aerial view (1965) Volketswil has an area of . Of this area, 42.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 24.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 32.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.8%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). housing and buildings made up 22.4% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (9.9%). Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 0.2% of the area. 30.1% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.