Electricity (H4) 25.70 cents/kWh, 5.2% cheaper than the Swiss average
H4 price comparison
Electricity 2027
Standard product
ENERGIE USTER AG
| 2-room flat2-rmH1 · 1,600 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 4-room flat4-rmH2 · 2,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 4-room flat with electric water heater4-rmH3 · 4,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room flat5-rmH4 · 4,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room detached house5-rmH5 · 7,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room detached house with electric heating5-rmH6 · 25,000 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room detached house with heat pump5-rmH7 · 13,000 kWh/yearcents/kWh | large owner-occupied flatflatH8 · 7,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30.46 cents/kWh▼ 6.1% | 27.80 cents/kWh▼ 8.0% | 25.57 cents/kWh▼ 7.7% | 25.70 cents/kWh▼ 10.0% | 24.50 cents/kWh▼ 9.1% | 24.59 cents/kWh▼ 2.6% | 24.62 cents/kWh▼ 7.6% | 24.65 cents/kWh▼ 11.0% |
H4 breakdown
- Grid usage10.06 cents/kWh
- Energy11.79 cents/kWh
- Levies0.00 cents/kWh
- Grid surcharge2.30 cents/kWh
- Standing charge48 CHF/year
Health insurance 2027
- Adultsfrom 493 CHF/month▲ 5.4%
- Adults, on average609.69 CHF/month▲ 4.7%
- Young adultsfrom 352.60 CHF/month▲ 3.2%
- Young adults, on average458.96 CHF/month▲ 4.5%
- Childrenfrom 110.30 CHF/month▲ 7.1%
- Children, on average147.99 CHF/month▲ 4.8%
Premium region 2: all municipalities
Population 2025
- Residents37,031
- Foreign share25.4%
- Ages 0–197,413 · 20.0%
- Ages 20–6422,666 · 61.2%
- Ages 65 and over6,952 · 18.8%
- Residents per km²1,299.8
Geography
- Altitude435–592 m
- Lakeno
- Mountain municipalityno
A mountain municipality is one whose settlement reaches 1,000 m.
Climate, 1991–2020 averages
- Temperature9.8 °C
- Annual precipitation1,218 mm
- Sunshine, share of possible hours41.8%
- Frost days71.9
- Days of 30 °C or more8.5
- Reference stationZürich / Fluntern, 12.2 km
Context
The comparisons for Uster follow this order.
37,031 people live in Uster. That is 1,299.8 per square kilometre.
For the period 1991-2020, Uster reads 41.8% relative sunshine, plus 9.8 °C and 1,218 mm of precipitation. A climate normal.
Uster is not a mountain municipality, by the altitude of the settlement.
Uster: 20.0% are young, 61.2% are of working age and 18.8% are older.
At the reference station for Uster there are 71.9 frost day and 8.5 hot days.
Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss official commune register, as of 13.10.2026 Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Spatial divisions of Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026 Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D
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Questions
What do population, geography and climate say about Uster?
37,031 people live in Uster. That is 1,299.8 per square kilometre. For the period 1991-2020, Uster reads 41.8% relative sunshine, plus 9.8 °C and 1,218 mm of precipitation. A climate normal. Uster is not a mountain municipality, by the altitude of the settlement. Uster: 20.0% are young, 61.2% are of working age and 18.8% are older. At the reference station for Uster there are 71.9 frost day and 8.5 hot days.
Border neighbours
- Uster or Fehraltorf3,684 m · 8.9%
- Uster or Pfäffikon2,174 m · 7.7%
- Uster or Gossau (ZH)1,520 m · 7.6%
- Uster or Greifensee4,104 m · 7.6%
- Uster or Mönchaltorf5,703 m · 7.6%
- Uster or Seegräben2,574 m · 7.6%
- Uster or Volketswil5,580 m · 7.6%
Nearby municipalities
- Living in Greifensee3.6 km
- Living in Maur3.8 km
- Living in Seegräben4.1 km
- Living in Mönchaltorf4.3 km
- Living in Volketswil4.9 km
- Living in Fehraltorf5.1 km
- Living in Pfäffikon5.3 km
- Living in Gossau (ZH)5.4 km
Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D Straight-line distance between municipality centres.
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- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss official commune register, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Spatial divisions of Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), STATPOP 2025, as of 20.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), geographic key figures, as of 20.10.2026
- Source: Federal Electricity Commission ElCom, Electricity tariff per provider and municipality in Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Electricity Commission ElCom, Consumption profiles, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Health insurance premiums, opendata.swiss, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), premium regions under the FDHA Ordinance on Premium Regions, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: MeteoSwiss, as of 20.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Commune names with common translations, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (SR 101), Art. 1, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D