Its coat of arms features a white shield showing a red rose with a yellow center and a green two-leaved stem.

Earliest archaeological findings are grave mounds from the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture (800-450BC) on the Zimmerberg mountain.

[5] The CEO of commodities company Glencore, Ivan Glasenberg, is a resident of Rüschlikon.

[6] Glasenberg paid 360 million SFr (£240m) in taxes to Rüschlikon following Glencore's flotation on the London Stock Exchange.

The money enabled the residents to cut their taxation rate by 7%, which was approved by large majority after a public vote.

[6] The money attracted criticism from some Rüschlikon residents with regards to Glencore's alleged controversial business practices.

Of the rest of the land, 55.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

[8] Rüschlikon is bordered on the north by Kilchberg, on the east by Lake Zürich, on the south by Thalwil, and on the west by Adliswil and Langnau am Albis.

The farms include cattle, horses, sheep, and a few exotic animals, as well as areas under cultivation.

[8] The historical population is given in the following table:[4] Rüschlikon is home to the IBM Zurich Research Lab, part of IBM Research, which has brought to Rüschlikon the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig in 1986 and to Karl Alexander Müller and Johannes Georg Bednorz in 1987.