Municipality · canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Herisau
District of Hinterland. Municipality number 3001 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 16’100
- km² of land
- 25.20
- residents per km²
- 639
- Canton
- Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- District
- Hinterland
- Residents 2025
- 16’100+1.0% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 26.1%4’199 people
- Private households 2025
- 7’451
- Land area
- 25.20 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Assekuranz Appenzell Ausserrhoden (the canton’s own insurer).0.54 ‰ of the insured value a year, plus the 5% federal stamp duty on the premium: CHF 558.50 per CHF 1 million.Prämientarif ab 01.01.2012, GK 1, BK 1, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
- Postcodes
- 9100, 9112, 9200
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Herisau, 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.