Municipality · canton of St. Gallen
St. Gallen
District of St. Gallen. Municipality number 3203 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 79’487
- km² of land
- 39.38
- residents per km²
- 2’018
- Canton
- St. Gallen
- District
- St. Gallen
- Residents 2025
- 79’487+0.8% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 34.6%27’471 people
- Private households 2025
- 39’493
- Land area
- 39.38 km²without lakes
- Parking
- Residents’ parking permit, day: CHF 360 a year (CHF 30 a month)Residents’ parking permit, day and night: CHF 480 a year (CHF 40 a month)For people living in the sector; only in the extended blue zone. City of St. Gallen, Parkzonen, read 12.10.2026
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung St.Gallen (the canton’s own insurer).0.27 ‰ of the insured value a year, plus the 5% federal stamp duty on the premium: CHF 278.50 per CHF 1 million.Beschluss sGS 873.13 Ziff. 1, read 12.10.2026; Feuerschutzverordnung sGS 871.11 Art. 59, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
- Postcodes
- 9000, 9008, 9010, 9011, 9012, 9014, 9015, 9016, 9030, 9037, 9042, 9300
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in St. Gallen, 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.