page_title: Kilchberg, Zürich
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Kilchberg, Zürich / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Aufnahme der Kirche von Kilchberg bei Zürich, davor das Grabmal von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
context_page_description: Kilchberg is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Kilchberg is the site of a regional cemetery.
context_section_description: Kilchberg has a population (as of 31 December 2018) of 8,858.  As of 2007, 21.2% of the population was made up of foreign nationals.  As of 2008 the gender distribution of the population was 48.1% male and 51.9% female.  Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 1.8% per annum.  Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German  (84.0%), with English being second most common (4.1%) and Italian being third (2.8%).
  In the 2007 national election the most popular party was the SVP which received 30.8% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the FDP (27.4%), the SPS (12.5%) and the CSP (10.2%).
  The age distribution of the population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 17.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.8%.  About 84.7% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).  There are 3,512 households in Kilchberg.
  As of 2008 there were 1928 Catholics and 2786 Protestants in Kilchberg.  In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories.  From the census, 44.3% were some type of Protestant, with 42.7% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 1.6% belonging to other Protestant churches.  28.1% of the population were Catholic.  Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 6.3% belonged to another religion (not listed), 3.3% did not give a religion, and 17.3% were atheist or agnostic.
  The historical population is given in the following table:
caption: Church of Kilchberg
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