Municipality · canton of Obwalden
Sarnen
Municipality number 1407 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 10’906
- km² of land
- 73.12
- residents per km²
- 149
- Canton
- Obwalden
- District
- None (the canton has no districts here)
- Residents 2025
- 10’906+0.4% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 18.4%2’005 people
- Private households 2025
- 4’834
- Land area
- 73.12 km²without lakes
- 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
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
- Postcodes
- 6056, 6060, 6062, 6063
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Sarnen, 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.