Bezirk Goms
ValaisBezirk Goms is one of 13 districts of the canton of Valais and comprises 8 municipalities with 4'446 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.
Votes in Bezirk Goms
district results as published by BFSPolitics
National Council election 2023 · sum of its municipalitiesTax rate in the district
ESTV 2026A district has no tax rate of its own. Rates range from 110 % % in Ernen to 140 % % in Lax (median 112.5 % %).
Tax burden (single, CHF 100,000): 14.3 % in Ernen to 16.4 % in Lax (ESTV 2'026)
Housing
BFSVacancy rate: published by BFS for the district (2025) · Dwellings: sum of its municipalities (2024)
Population change
BFS · 2025 · sum of its municipalitiesEconomy
BFS · 2024 · sum of its municipalitiesAgriculture
BFS · 2025 · sum of its municipalitiesClimate · Terrain
MeteoSchweiz · swisstopoClimate: area-weighted over its municipalities · Terrain: swissALTIRegio 40 m, zonal over the district polygon
Energy · Accessibility
BFE · ElCom · ARESolar potential: sum of its municipalities · Electricity: median of its municipalities (22.627–26.909 Rp./kWh, 2027). ElCom publishes a median per municipality; the district value is our median of those. · Accessibility: median of its municipalities
Where the municipalities of Bezirk Goms rank
sum of its municipalities4 of these postal codes reach across the district border.
Map
swisstopo · OSM- Which municipalities belong to Bezirk Goms?
- Bezirk Goms comprises 8 municipalities: Goms, Fiesch, Obergoms, Ernen, Bellwald, Fieschertal, Lax, Binn. Together they have 4'446 residents (BFS, 2025).
- Which canton is Bezirk Goms in?
- Bezirk Goms lies in the canton of Valais, which is divided into 13 districts.
- How many people live in Bezirk Goms?
- Bezirk Goms has 4'446 residents (BFS STATPOP, 2025) — the sum of its 8 municipalities; the largest is Goms with 1'163.
- Does Bezirk Goms have its own tax rate?
- No. Tax rates are set by municipalities. In Bezirk Goms the municipal rate ranges from 110 % (Ernen) to 140 % (Lax).
- How did Bezirk Goms vote in the latest federal vote?
- On 14.06.2026, Bezirk Goms voted 58.8 % 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.