Municipality · canton of Ticino
Bellinzona
District of Bellinzona. Municipality number 5002 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 45’828
- km² of land
- 164.20
- residents per km²
- 279
- Canton
- Ticino
- District
- Bellinzona
- Residents 2025
- 45’828+1.2% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 28.2%12’903 people
- Private households 2025
- 21’453
- Land area
- 164.20 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Private insurers cover buildings here.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.FINMA-Verfügung vom 25. Januar 2022, BBl 2022 264, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 9 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton; Glarner Kantonalbank states it does not lend in Ticino
- Postcodes
- 6500, 6503, 6512, 6513, 6514, 6515, 6518, 6523, 6524, 6525, 6528, 6532, 6582, 6583, 6584, 6592, 6702
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Bellinzona, 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.