Municipality · canton of Schwyz
Schwyz
District of Schwyz. Municipality number 1372 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 16’735
- km² of land
- 53.18
- residents per km²
- 315
- Canton
- Schwyz
- District
- Schwyz
- Residents 2025
- 16’735+1.8% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 22.4%3’751 people
- Private households 2025
- 7’425
- Land area
- 53.18 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Private insurers cover buildings here, and cover is compulsory.The natural-hazard part is the same at every insurer: CHF 0.31 per CHF 1’000 (FINMA, since 2023). The fire part is each insurer’s own price; none is published.SRSZ 531.110 § 1 para. 1, read 12.10.2026; FINMA-Verfügung vom 25. Januar 2022, BBl 2022 264, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
- Postcodes
- 6417, 6423, 6430, 6432, 6438, 8842, 8843
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Schwyz, 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.