Canton · OW

Obwalden

7 municipalities.

residents, 2025: 39’879
km² of land: 481
residents per km²: 83

Building insurance: Private insurers cover buildings here, and cover is compulsory.The natural-hazard part is the same at every insurer: CHF 0.31 per CHF 1’000 (FINMA, since 2023). The fire part is each insurer’s own price; none is published.GDB 213.7 Art. 21 para. 1, read 12.10.2026; FINMA-Verfügung vom 25. Januar 2022, BBl 2022 264, read 12.10.2026


Sarnen	—	10’906	73.12	149
Alpnach	—	6’594	53.79	123
Kerns	—	6’557	92.58	71
Sachseln	—	5’300	53.88	98
Engelberg	—	4’377	74.87	58
Giswil	—	4’013	85.91	47
Lungern	—	2’132	46.47	46

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.