The municipality is best known for its football club SpVgg Unterhaching, who played in the Bundesliga in 1999–2001 and is also home to a CO2 neutral district heating network.

The name Haching is first recorded in a document from the Schäftlarn monastery in the year 806, left by the abbot Petto.

inferiori hachingin) emerges for the first time in the year 1180 in a possession listing of the bishop of Freising (Freesing).

The SpVgg Unterhaching also has a very successful bob-sledding team, with multiple world and European titles.

The company Anton Schrobenhauser has become one of the largest building contractors in Munich and the surrounding areas.

The headquarters campus (Campeon) of Infineon Technologies, a global leader in semiconductors, is accessible on foot despite being officially part of the neighboring city of Neubiberg.