Municipality · canton of Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen
District of Schaffhausen. Municipality number 2939 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 39’228
- km² of land
- 41.85
- residents per km²
- 937
- Canton
- Schaffhausen
- District
- Schaffhausen
- Residents 2025
- 39’228+0.7% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 31.4%12’316 people
- Private households 2025
- 18’727
- Land area
- 41.85 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung des Kantons Schaffhausen (the canton’s own insurer).0.25 ‰ of the insured value a year: CHF 250 per CHF 1 million, plus up to CHF 8 federal stamp duty; the insurer does not say whether its rate includes it.Beschluss SHR 960.112 § 1, read 12.10.2026; Brandschutzverordnung SHR 550.101 § 56 para. 4, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
- Postcodes
- 8200, 8203, 8207, 8208, 8212, 8222, 8231
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Schaffhausen, 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.