Municipality · canton of St. Gallen
Buchs (SG)
District of Werdenberg. Municipality number 3271 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 14’287
- km² of land
- 15.95
- residents per km²
- 896
- Canton
- St. Gallen
- District
- Werdenberg
- Residents 2025
- 14’287+1.8% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 45.3%6’479 people
- Private households 2025
- 6’258
- Land area
- 15.95 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung St.Gallen (the canton’s own insurer).0.27 ‰ of the insured value a year, plus the 5% federal stamp duty on the premium: CHF 278.50 per CHF 1 million.Beschluss sGS 873.13 Ziff. 1, read 12.10.2026; Feuerschutzverordnung sGS 871.11 Art. 59, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
- Postcodes
- 9469, 9470
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Buchs (SG), 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.