Of the rest of the land, 33.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

[4] The municipality is located on the north-west edge of the Lorze river flood plain.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (86.2%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common ( 3.4%) and Italian being third ( 2.8%).

[4] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 28.7% of the vote.

[4] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] Steinhausen railway station is a stop of the Zürich S-Bahn on the line S5.