Maur is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Of the rest of the land, 20.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

As of 2007[update] 17% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.

It includes the village of Maur and the settlements of Aesch, Scheuren (Forch), Binz, Ebmatingen and Uessikon.

Without railways and without water-rich streams, no industry could gain a foothold in the municipality.

Even today, agriculture is still an important employer, along with a few small service and craft businesses.

Four-fifths of the working population earn their living outside the municipality, mostly in the city of Zurich and the surrounding towns.