Municipality · canton of Basel-Stadt
Basel
Municipality number 2701 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 180’097
- km² of land
- 23.85
- residents per km²
- 7’551
- Canton
- Basel-Stadt
- District
- None (the canton has no districts here)
- Residents 2025
- 180’097+1.4% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 40.5%72’884 people
- Private households 2025
- 91’731
- Land area
- 23.85 km²without lakes
- Parking
- Residents’ parking permit, car up to 3.90 m: CHF 332 a yearResidents’ parking permit, car 3.90 to 4.90 m: CHF 422 a yearResidents’ parking permit, car over 4.90 m: CHF 512 a yearThe fee depends on the length of the car. Canton of Basel-Stadt, press release of 18.06.2024, read 12.10.2026
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung des Kantons Basel-Stadt (the canton’s own insurer).0.25 ‰ of the insured value a year, stamp duty included: CHF 250 per CHF 1 million.Prämienbestimmungen SG 695.400 § 3 para. 1, read 12.10.2026; Prämienbestimmungen SG 695.400 § 3 para. 6, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
- Postcodes
- 4001, 4031, 4051, 4052, 4053, 4054, 4055, 4056, 4057, 4058, 4059
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Basel, 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.