Bäretswil is a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Of the rest of the land, 8.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

As of 2007[update] 4.7% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.

The old cotton mill, pictured, now houses museums of spinning and weaving machinery.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (93.9%), with Italian being second most common ( 1.7%) and Albanian being third ( 1.3%).

In the 2000 census[update], religion was broken down into several smaller categories.

[5] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] The municipality had two railway stations, Bäretswil and Neuthal, on the Uerikon–Bauma line.