Municipality · canton of Graubünden
Chur
District of Plessur. Municipality number 3901 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 39’753
- km² of land
- 81.99
- residents per km²
- 485
- Canton
- Graubünden
- District
- Plessur
- Residents 2025
- 39’753+0.7% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 24.4%9’717 people
- Private households 2025
- 19’678
- Land area
- 81.99 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung Graubünden (the canton’s own insurer).0.26 ‰ of the insured value a year: CHF 260 per CHF 1 million, plus up to CHF 8.50 federal stamp duty; the insurer does not say whether its rate includes it.Plus 0.30 ‰ for buildings the GVG designates as exposed to natural hazards (BR 830.110 Art. 20, 23); the figure above is the ordinary rate.Verordnung BR 830.110 Art. 22 para. 1, read 12.10.2026; Verordnung BR 830.110 Art. 22 para. 2, 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 Graubünden only
- Postcodes
- 7000, 7023, 7026, 7063, 7064, 7074
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Chur, 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.