Municipality · canton of Neuchâtel
La Chaux-de-Fonds
Municipality number 6421 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 37’858
- km² of land
- 55.71
- residents per km²
- 680
- Canton
- Neuchâtel
- District
- None (the canton has no districts here)
- Residents 2025
- 37’858+0.7% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 33.5%12’677 people
- Private households 2025
- 18’693
- Land area
- 55.71 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with ECAP Neuchâtel (the canton’s own insurer).0.52 ‰ of the insured value a year, plus the 5% federal stamp duty on the premium: CHF 538 per CHF 1 million.Règlement tarifaire CL-32-03, édition 2023, 3.1, read 12.10.2026; Règlement tarifaire CL-32-03, édition 2023, 3.3, 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 Neuchâtel
- Postcodes
- 2300, 2314, 2322, 2616
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in La Chaux-de-Fonds, 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.