Municipality · canton of Vaud
Lausanne
District of Lausanne. Municipality number 5586 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 145’596
- km² of land
- 41.37
- residents per km²
- 3’519
- Canton
- Vaud
- District
- Lausanne
- Residents 2025
- 145’596+0.5% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 42.9%62’466 people
- Private households 2025
- 72’328
- Land area
- 41.37 km²without lakes
- Parking
- Residents’ parking permit: CHF 500 a yearMain residence in Lausanne and a car registered in the canton of Vaud; valid on public ground only. City of Lausanne, Macarons pour résidents, read 12.10.2026
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with ECA Vaud (the canton’s own insurer). No data: ECA Vaud does not publish its building tariff.ECA Vaud, foire aux questions, read 12.10.2026
- Contents insurance
- Compulsory, with ECA Vaud: 0.50 ‰ of the contents’ value, at least CHF 20. ECA’s premium simulator, not binding; stamp duty extra.LAIEN BLV 963.41 Art. 6a para. 1, read 12.10.2026; ECA Vaud, aide à la souscription mobilier ménage, 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 Vaud
- Postcodes
- 1000, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1010, 1011, 1012, 1018, 1023, 1032, 1033, 1053
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Lausanne, 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.