Municipality · canton of Bern
Burgdorf
District of Emmental. Municipality number 404 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 17’577
- km² of land
- 15.56
- residents per km²
- 1’130
- Canton
- Bern
- District
- Emmental
- Residents 2025
- 17’577+1.6% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 21.9%3’849 people
- Private households 2025
- 8’274
- Land area
- 15.56 km²without lakes
- 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
- 3400, 3413, 3414, 3472
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Burgdorf, 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.