Hütten is first mentioned in 1270 as ze dien Hütten.
Geography
Hütten has an area of. Of this area, 52.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 36.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.5% is settled and the remainder is non-productive. housing and buildings made up 2.8% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest. Of the total unproductive area, water made up 2.8% of the area. 1.8% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction. The municipality is near the Hüttnersee, a small lake shared with Richterswil. It is a linear village made up of hamlets and farm houses along both sides of the Sihl.
Demographics
Hütten has a population of. , 6.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. the gender distribution of the population was 52.9% male and 47.1% female. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7.4%. Most of the population speaks German , with English being second most common and Albanian being third. In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 55.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CSP, the SPS and the CVP. The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers make up 29.5% of the population, while adults make up 56.9% and seniors make up 13.6%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Hütten about 71% of the population have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education. There are 327 households in Hütten. Hütten has an unemployment rate of 2.11%. , there were 93 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 35 businesses involved in this sector. 31 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 11 businesses in this sector. 101 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 24 businesses in this sector. 38% of the working population were employed full-time, and 62% were employed part-time. there were 359 Catholics and 413 Protestants in Hütten. In the 2000 census, religion was broken down into several smaller categories. From the, 49.5% were some type of Protestant, with 46.2% belonging to the Swiss Reformed Church and 3.4% belonging to other Protestant churches. 36.5% of the population were Catholic. Of the rest of the population, 0% were Muslim, 2.8% belonged to another religion, 4.9% did not give a religion, and 5.9% were atheist or agnostic. The historical population is given in the following table:
