Municipality · canton of Bern
Biel/Bienne
District of Biel/Bienne. Municipality number 371 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 57’462
- km² of land
- 21.19
- residents per km²
- 2’712
- Canton
- Bern
- District
- Biel/Bienne
- Residents 2025
- 57’462+1.0% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 35.2%20’244 people
- Private households 2025
- 28’397
- Land area
- 21.19 km²without lakes
- Parking
- Residents’ parking permit: CHF 330 a yearFor people living in the sector; one number plate per card. City of Biel/Bienne, Anwohnerparkkarte, read 12.10.2026
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung Bern (the canton’s own insurer).0.318 ‰ of the insured value a year, plus the 5% federal stamp duty on the premium: CHF 329.90 per CHF 1 million.2026: Surplus refund of CHF 35m in total, no rate (not in the figure: no rate is published)Prämientarif BSG 873.111.2, Anhang 1, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton; Glarner Kantonalbank lends in the German-speaking part of Bern only
- Postcodes
- 2502, 2503, 2504, 2505, 2532
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Biel/Bienne, 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.