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District d'Entremont

Valais

District d'Entremont is one of 13 districts of the canton of Valais and comprises 5 municipalities with 16'528 residents in all (BFS, 2025). A district is an administrative unit of the canton — a court and administrative area, not a postal delivery area: postal codes and localities follow delivery routes and can cross district borders.

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Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 12.08.2026

Votes in District d'Entremont

district results as published by BFS
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 12.08.2026

Politics

National Council election 2023 · sum of its municipalities
Mitte40.6% · strongest party
Mitte40.6%
SVP19.9%
FDP19.7%
SP8.8%
GRÜNE8.1%
GLP2.2%
PdA/Sol.0.7%
Bourg-Saint-Pierre
100 %
median of its municipalities
120 %
Liddes
125 %

A district has no tax rate of its own. Rates range from 100 % % in Bourg-Saint-Pierre to 125 % % in Liddes (median 120 % %).

Tax burden (single, CHF 100,000): 13.7 % in Bourg-Saint-Pierre to 16.1 % in Liddes (ESTV 2'026)

Vacancy rate
1.1 %
Dwellings
16'413
Avg. rooms
3.6
Built before 1946
18.2%

Vacancy rate: published by BFS for the district (2025) · Dwellings: sum of its municipalities (2024)

Population change

BFS · 2025 · sum of its municipalities
Population change 2025
+212 +1.3%
births
135
deaths
109
net migration
+195
BEVNAT (Statistik der natürlichen Bevölkerungsbewegung) 2025 · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 19.09.2026

Economy

BFS · 2024 · sum of its municipalities
Jobs
9'898
Workplaces
1'975
Services share
74.4 %
Jobs by sector: Primary 461 (4.7%) · Secondary 2'070 (20.9%) · Tertiary 7'361 (74.4%)
STATENT (Statistik der Unternehmensstruktur) 2024 · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 11.09.2026

Agriculture

BFS · 2025 · sum of its municipalities
Farms
161
Organic share
9.9 %
Farmland
3'231 ha
Landwirtschaftliche Strukturerhebung 2025 · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 19.09.2026

Climate · Terrain

MeteoSchweiz · swisstopo
Annual mean temperature
0.9 °C
Precipitation
1'279 mm
Elevation
629–4'303 m
Flat share
2.6%

Climate: area-weighted over its municipalities · Terrain: swissALTIRegio 40 m, zonal over the district polygon

Energy · Accessibility

BFE · ElCom · ARE
Solar potential
247 GWh
Electricity
26.9 Rp./kWh
Public transport to centre
118 min
Road to centre
80 min

Solar potential: sum of its municipalities · Electricity: median of its municipalities (26.92227.363 Rp./kWh, 2027). ElCom publishes a median per municipality; the district value is our median of those. · Accessibility: median of its municipalities

Map

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Which municipalities belong to District d'Entremont?
District d'Entremont comprises 5 municipalities: Val de Bagnes, Orsières, Sembrancher, Liddes, Bourg-Saint-Pierre. Together they have 16'528 residents (BFS, 2025).
Which canton is District d'Entremont in?
District d'Entremont lies in the canton of Valais, which is divided into 13 districts.
How many people live in District d'Entremont?
District d'Entremont has 16'528 residents (BFS STATPOP, 2025) — the sum of its 5 municipalities; the largest is Val de Bagnes with 11'044.
Does District d'Entremont have its own tax rate?
No. Tax rates are set by municipalities. In District d'Entremont the municipal rate ranges from 100 % (Bourg-Saint-Pierre) to 125 % (Liddes).
How did District d'Entremont vote in the latest federal vote?
On 14.06.2026, District d'Entremont voted 57.4 % yes on “Änderung des Bundesgesetzes über den zivilen Ersatzdienst (Zivildienstgesetz, ZDG)” (Accepted) — the district figure BFS publishes.

Districts exist in 17 cantons; UR, OW, NW, GL, ZG, BS, AI, NE and GE have no such level.