Municipality · canton of Zug
Cham
Municipality number 1702 in the federal register.
- residents, 2025
- 18’518
- km² of land
- 17.73
- residents per km²
- 1’044
- Canton
- Zug
- District
- None (the canton has no districts here)
- Residents 2025
- 18’518+1.3% on 2024
- Foreign residents
- 27.9%5’166 people
- Private households 2025
- 7’782
- Land area
- 17.73 km²without lakes
- Building insurance
- Compulsory, with Gebäudeversicherung Zug (the canton’s own insurer).0.60 ‰ of the insured value a year: CHF 550 per CHF 1 million, plus up to CHF 22.50 federal stamp duty; the insurer does not say whether its rate includes it.2026: 10% off the insurance share, taken off in the figure aboveGVZG, Prämienrabatt 2026, read 12.10.2026
- Mortgage lenders
- 10 of 10lenders on MEconomy with no stated limit that excludes this canton
- Postcodes
- 6330, 6331, 6332
What a household pays here
Health insurance and electricity for your household in Cham, 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.