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District de Saint-Maurice

Valais

District de Saint-Maurice is one of 13 districts of the canton of Valais and comprises 9 municipalities with 15'192 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 de Saint-Maurice

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

Politics

National Council election 2023 · sum of its municipalities
Mitte24.5% · strongest party
Mitte24.5%
SP21.8%
SVP19.2%
FDP19.1%
GRÜNE12.0%
GLP2.2%
PdA/Sol.1.2%
Finhaut
100 %
median of its municipalities
120 %
Evionnaz
130 %

A district has no tax rate of its own. Rates range from 100 % % in Finhaut to 130 % % in Evionnaz (median 120 % %).

Tax burden (single, CHF 100,000): 13.7 % in Finhaut to 16.1 % in Vérossaz (ESTV 2'026)

Vacancy rate
2.06 %
Dwellings
8'437
Avg. rooms
3.6
Built before 1946
27.6%

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
+218 +1.5%
births
130
deaths
110
net migration
+175
BEVNAT (Statistik der natürlichen Bevölkerungsbewegung) 2025 · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 19.09.2026

Economy

BFS · 2024 · sum of its municipalities
Jobs
4'979
Workplaces
1'036
Services share
68.2 %
Jobs by sector: Primary 164 (3.3%) · Secondary 1'417 (28.5%) · Tertiary 3'398 (68.2%)
STATENT (Statistik der Unternehmensstruktur) 2024 · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 11.09.2026

Agriculture

BFS · 2025 · sum of its municipalities
Farms
49
Organic share
12.2 %
Farmland
1'137 ha
Landwirtschaftliche Strukturerhebung 2025 · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 19.09.2026

Climate · Terrain

MeteoSchweiz · swisstopo
Annual mean temperature
4.3 °C
Precipitation
1'530 mm
Elevation
391–3'246 m
Flat share
9.8%

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

Energy · Accessibility

BFE · ElCom · ARE
Solar potential
127 GWh
Electricity
25 Rp./kWh
Public transport to centre
73 min
Road to centre
55 min

Solar potential: sum of its municipalities · Electricity: median of its municipalities (25.04426.194 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 de Saint-Maurice?
District de Saint-Maurice comprises 9 municipalities: Saint-Maurice, Massongex, Vernayaz, Evionnaz, Salvan, Dorénaz, Vérossaz, Collonges, Finhaut. Together they have 15'192 residents (BFS, 2025).
Which canton is District de Saint-Maurice in?
District de Saint-Maurice lies in the canton of Valais, which is divided into 13 districts.
How many people live in District de Saint-Maurice?
District de Saint-Maurice has 15'192 residents (BFS STATPOP, 2025) — the sum of its 9 municipalities; the largest is Saint-Maurice with 4'656.
Does District de Saint-Maurice have its own tax rate?
No. Tax rates are set by municipalities. In District de Saint-Maurice the municipal rate ranges from 100 % (Finhaut) to 130 % (Evionnaz).
How did District de Saint-Maurice vote in the latest federal vote?
On 14.06.2026, District de Saint-Maurice voted 55.4 % 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.