Municipality · canton of Ticino
Locarno
District of Locarno. Municipality number 5113 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 16’463
- km² of land
- 18.91
- residents per km²
- 871
- Canton
- Ticino
- District
- Locarno
- Residents 2025
- 16’463+0.5% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 36.1%5’943 people
- Private households 2025
- 8’528
- Land area
- 18.91 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Private insurers cover buildings here.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.FINMA-Verfügung vom 25. Januar 2022, BBl 2022 264, 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 Ticino
- Postcodes
- 6516, 6572, 6594, 6595, 6596, 6600, 6605, 6612, 6644, 6652
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Locarno, 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.