Kochłowice (German: Kochlowitz) is a district in the south-east of Ruda Śląska, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland.

In the 16th and 17th centuries a salt mill (Salzhütte) operated here, the only such establishment in the Bytom state country.

The village was affected by industrial development in the 19th century (coal mines) After World War I in the Upper Silesia plebiscite 3,364 out of 4,427 voters in Kochłowice voted in favour of rejoining Poland which had just regained independence, against 968 opting for staying in Germany.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany.

The Germans established and operated a Polenlager forced labour camp for Poles in Kochłowice (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).