Municipality · canton of Schwyz
Arth
District of Schwyz. Municipality number 1362 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 12’616
- km² of land
- 42.02
- residents per km²
- 300
- Canton
- Schwyz
- District
- Schwyz
- Residents 2025
- 12’616+0.7% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 30.8%3’880 people
- Private households 2025
- 5’403
- Land area
- 42.02 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.SRSZ 531.110 § 1 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
- 6318, 6356, 6410, 6414, 6415, 6416
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Arth, 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.