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Municipality · canton of Luzern

Horw

District of Luzern-Land. Municipality number 1058 in the federal register.

residents, 2025
15’939
km² of land
12.86
residents per km²
1’239
Canton
Luzern
District
Luzern-Land
Residents 2025
15’939+0.8% on 2024
Foreign residents
18.8%3’002 people
Private households 2025
7’346
Land area
12.86 km²without lakes
Building insurance
Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung Luzern (the canton’s own insurer).0.51 ‰ of the insured value a year, plus the 5% federal stamp duty on the premium: CHF 529 per CHF 1 million.Gebäudeversicherungsverordnung SRL 750a § 17 para. 3, read 12.10.2026; GVL, Ihre Prämienrechnung 2026, read 12.10.2026
Mortgage lenders
10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
Postcodes
6005, 6047, 6048, 6052

What a household pays here

Health insurance and electricity for your household in Horw, 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.