Wasterkingen is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

[3] Wasterkingen has a road border crossing into Germany.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (98.0%), with French being second most common ( 0.7%) and English being third ( 0.5%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 53.8% of the vote.

In Wasterkingen about 91.8% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).