Municipality · canton of Bern
Bern
District of Bern-Mittelland. Municipality number 351 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 138’562
- km² of land
- 51.62
- residents per km²
- 2’684
- Canton
- Bern
- District
- Bern-Mittelland
- Residents 2025
- 138’562+0.4% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 25.9%35’896 people
- Private households 2025
- 68’313
- Land area
- 51.62 km²without lakes
- Parking
- Residents’ parking permit: CHF 264 a yearCity of Bern, application form Anwohnerparkkarte, read 12.10.2026
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung Bern (the canton’s own insurer).0.318 ‰ of the insured value a year, plus the 5% federal stamp duty on the premium: CHF 329.90 per CHF 1 million.2026: Surplus refund of CHF 35m in total, no rate (not in the figure: no rate is published)Prämientarif BSG 873.111.2, Anhang 1, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton; Glarner Kantonalbank lends in the German-speaking part of Bern only
- Postcodes
- 3004, 3005, 3006, 3007, 3008, 3010, 3011, 3012, 3013, 3014, 3015, 3018, 3019, 3020, 3027, 3032, 3037, 3048, 3063, 3072, 3073, 3084, 3097, 3172
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Bern, against where you live today.
Sources: population and foreign residents on 31.12.2025 and private households 2025, Federal Statistical Office (STATPOP), on today’s municipal boundaries; municipalities, districts and land area without lakes, swisstopo swissTLMRegio; postcodes, swisstopo’s official locality register. Updated each September.