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Municipality · canton of Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel

Municipality number 6458 in the federal register.

residents, 2025
45’466
km² of land
30.09
residents per km²
1’511
District
None (the canton has no districts here)
Residents 2025
45’466+0.3% on 2024
Foreign residents
33.0%14’982 people
Private households 2025
22’725
Land area
30.09 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
2000, 2034, 2035, 2036, 2037, 2042, 2067, 2068

What a household pays here

Health insurance and electricity for your household in Neuchâtel, 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.