Municipality · canton of Glarus
Glarus
Municipality number 1632 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 12’968
- km² of land
- 103.67
- residents per km²
- 125
- Canton
- Glarus
- District
- None (the canton has no districts here)
- Residents 2025
- 12’968+0.6% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 29.7%3’851 people
- Private households 2025
- 5’912
- Land area
- 103.67 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with glarnerSach (the canton’s own insurer).0.26 ‰ of the insured value a year: CHF 260 per CHF 1 million, plus up to CHF 13 federal stamp duty; the insurer does not say whether its rate includes it.Prämientarif GS V D/1/3 Art. 1, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
- Postcodes
- 8750, 8754, 8755
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Glarus, 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.