Municipality · canton of Bern
Lyss
District of Seeland. Municipality number 306 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 16’613
- km² of land
- 14.83
- residents per km²
- 1’120
- Canton
- Bern
- District
- Seeland
- Residents 2025
- 16’613+0.3% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 22.2%3’685 people
- Private households 2025
- 7’579
- Land area
- 14.83 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
- 2557, 3250, 3292
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Lyss, 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.