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.

[5] The municipality is located in the hills between the Glatt and Töss Valleys.

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%).

[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.