Municipality · canton of Fribourg
Estavayer
District of La Broye. Municipality number 2054 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 10’812
- km² of land
- 40.38
- residents per km²
- 268
- Canton
- Fribourg
- District
- La Broye
- Residents 2025
- 10’812+1.8% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 23.9%2’580 people
- Private households 2025
- 4’738
- Land area
- 40.38 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Etablissement cantonal d’assurance des bâtiments (the canton’s own insurer).0.42 ‰ of the insured value a year, plus the 5% federal stamp duty on the premium: CHF 434.70 per CHF 1 million.2026: 20% on the 2026 invoice; ECAB does not say whether the levy is included (not in the figure: no rate is published)Règlement du 20 juin 2018 sur les primes, Art. 1, read 12.10.2026; ECAB, questions fréquentes, read 12.10.2026
- Contents insurance
- Compulsory, with a private insurer of your choice; the natural-hazard part is CHF 0.21 per CHF 1’000 at every insurer.SGF 732.2.1 Art. 1, read 12.10.2026; FINMA-Verfügung vom 25. Januar 2022, BBl 2022 264, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 9 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton; Glarner Kantonalbank states it does not lend in Fribourg
- Postcodes
- 1470, 1473, 1475, 1486, 1489, 1541, 1542
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Estavayer, 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.