Living in Appenzell

In Appenzell, unemployment is 0.9% (2022).

Appenzell had 6,096 residents at the end of 2024 and is a city in Switzerland. The foreign population count was 1,315 at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-10-1030 sources

Population6,096people31 Dec 2024Official source · Switzerland official denominator source

Median gross salary (region)6,952EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch

Average net rent16.17EUR/m²/month31 Dec 2024Regional figureOfficial source · Loyer moyen par m2 en francs selon le nombre de pièces, par canton (mean rent per m2 in CHF by number of rooms and canton)

Unemployment rate0.9%country median 2.3% — 61% belowOfficial source · Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO

Recorded crime6,703incidents per 100,000country median 11,440 — 41% belowOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik Appenzell Innerrhoden 2025

Which Switzerland-wide rules apply when you move to Appenzell?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

Visa and entry rulesPassport-specific entry and national residence context.BenefitsCountry-wide eligibility and official application routes.Taxes in SwitzerlandNational rates and thresholds that apply in Appenzell.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€71

Mobile plan, 10 GB€56

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	70.68 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Swisscom blue Internet S¹⁴Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	56.03 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Salt Swiss 10GB¹⁰Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	16.17 EUR/m²/month	31 Dec 2024	Loyer moyen par m2 en francs selon le nombre de pièces, par canton (mean rent per m2 in CHF by number of rooms and canton)⁵Official · regional context

Is Appenzell a good place to live?

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Remote worker64%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 54–74%

Skilled employee69%strong on work, weak on education · range 59–79%

Student37%strong on legal route, weak on education · range 26–48%

Family51%strong on family, weak on education · range 41–61%

Retirement50%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 38–62%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Appenzell?

The unemployment rate is 0.9 % (2022). Source: Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO¹

Unemployment across cities in SwitzerlandUnemployment in Appenzell is 0.9%. Of 176 cities with data, 52 have unemployment of 2 to under 3%.

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Appenzell 0.9%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	6,952 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch²¹Official
Unemployment rate	0.9 %country median 2.3%	31 Dec 2022	Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO¹Official

What does a salary buy in Appenzell?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

Left over each month€4,739of €5,836 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile
Left over

Line-by-line breakdown and sources

Each month	€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions; euro amounts at the ECB average for 2026-08.	€5,836
Rent, 60 m²€16.17/m² · official · Loyer moyen par m2 en francs selon le nombre de pièces, par canton (mean rent per m2 in CHF by number of rooms and canton) · 2024-12-31	− €970
Internet€71 · official · Swisscom blue Internet S · 2026-09-30	− €71
Mobile plan€56 · official · Salt Swiss 10GB · 2026-09-30	− €56
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€4,739

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Appenzell Salary needed to live in Appenzell

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Appenzell. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

arbeit.swiss — Public employment service

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs / public employment service

Job SearchCareer Counselling

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Appenzell. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

How safe is Appenzell?

Police recorded about 6,703 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik Appenzell Innerrhoden 2025⁹

Recorded crime across major citiesAppenzell highlighted among comparable cities

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Solothurn25,779

Bern20,196

Interlaken18,896

Olten15,369

Kloten13,097

St. Gallen9,783

Winterthur7,988

Muri bei Bern5,389

Wetzikon (ZH)4,048

Küsnacht (ZH)3,718

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	6,703 incidents per 100,000country median 11,440	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik Appenzell Innerrhoden 2025⁹Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	2 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights⁶Official
Nearest airport	ACH	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official
Distance to nearest airport	21 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁷Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Appenzell. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Cantonal integration programmes — Newcomer Adaptation

SEM and cantons

For migrants, refugees.

German, French, ItalianIn Person

Open official information

fide language promotion system — State Language Course

State Secretariat for Migration (SEM)

For adult migrants.

German, French, ItalianIn Person, Online

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Appenzell.

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Climate and air quality

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C

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-4°-9°

-5°-10°

-3°-8°

-1°-5°

3°-1°

7°2°

9°4°

10°4°

6°1°

4°-1°

-1°-6°

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

270

222

255

176

224

243

279

266

214

193

205

294

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Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

128

132

155

162

163

160

168

171

158

161

118

112

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hours

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average daytime high by month	Jan -4.1 · Feb -4.8 · Mar -3.3 · Apr -1 · May 3.2 · Jun 6.9 · Jul 9.2 · Aug 9.6 · Sep 6.2 · Oct 3.7 · Nov -0.7 · Dec -3.2 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁶Official
Average night-time low by month	Jan -9.3 · Feb -10 · Mar -8 · Apr -5.3 · May -1.3 · Jun 2.1 · Jul 4 · Aug 4.5 · Sep 1.3 · Oct -1.3 · Nov -5.7 · Dec -8.4 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁷Official
Average temperature by month	Jan -6.8 · Feb -7.5 · Mar -5.6 · Apr -3 · May 1 · Jun 4.5 · Jul 6.4 · Aug 6.8 · Sep 3.6 · Oct 1.1 · Nov -3.3 · Dec -5.9 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁸Official
Average precipitation by month	Jan 269.5 · Feb 221.9 · Mar 254.6 · Apr 176.2 · May 224 · Jun 242.8 · Jul 278.6 · Aug 266.3 · Sep 214.3 · Oct 193.4 · Nov 204.9 · Dec 293.6 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁹Official
Average sunshine by month	Jan 127.8 · Feb 132.3 · Mar 155.3 · Apr 161.8 · May 162.7 · Jun 159.5 · Jul 168.1 · Aug 170.9 · Sep 157.7 · Oct 160.7 · Nov 118.4 · Dec 111.5 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI²⁰Official

Similar climate. In Switzerland: Winterthur ±9.8 °C. Elsewhere: Jönköping (Sweden) ±6.9 °C, Barrie (Canada) ±7.8 °C, Gatineau (Canada) ±8.2 °C, Chatham-Kent (Canada) ±9.5 °C, Eutin (Germany) ±9.9 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Appenzell?

The published population was 6,096 people in 2024. Source: Switzerland official denominator source¹⁵

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport78.4%
Foreign residents21.6%

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Cars per 1,000 residents	965.5 cars/1000 residents	31 Dec 2024	Swiss Federal Statistical Office/OFS/BFS¹³Official
City area	16.87 km²	2017	Exact BFS Arealstatistik municipality area: sum of exhaustive NOAS top-level categories 1-4, PERIOD=A4 (2013-2018), FJ=2017, municipality REGION state 2025-01-01; hectares converted to km².⁴Official
Foreign non-permanent residents	47 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁸Official
Foreign residents	1,315 people	31 Dec 2024	Ständige Wohnbevölkerung, Staatsangehörigkeit = Ausland, Gemeinde grain, 31.12.2024.¹¹Official
Non-permanent residents	47 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁸Official
Population density	361.4 people/km²	31 Dec 2024	Reproducible density from BFS STATPOP permanent population at 31.12.2024 divided by the exact official BFS municipality area denominator (2013-2018; FJ=2017; area observed_at=2017).⁴Official
Population	6,096 people	31 Dec 2024	Switzerland official denominator source¹⁵Official
Swiss non-permanent residents	0 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁸Official
Swiss permanent residents	4,781 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁸Official

International community in Appenzell

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Country of birth

Non-permanent resident population, total sex, all ages · 2025-12-31

Published group	People	Share
Place of birth - total	41	100.0%
Abroad	40	97.6%
In Switzerland	1	2.4%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹²

Country of birth

Permanent resident population, total sex, all ages · 2025-12-31

Published group	People	Share
Place of birth - total	6,191	100.0%
In Switzerland	4,764	77.0%
Abroad	1,427	23.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹²

Citizenship

Non-permanent resident population, total sex, all ages · 2025-12-31

Published group	People	Share
Citizenship - total	41	100.0%
Ukraine	10	24.4%
Afghanistan	5	12.2%
Poland	4	9.8%
Germany	3	7.3%
Somalia	3	7.3%
Portugal	2	4.9%
Slovakia	2	4.9%
Eritrea	2	4.9%
Myanmar	2	4.9%

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Published group	People	Share
Lebanon	2	4.9%
Austria	1	2.4%
Spain	1	2.4%
Türkiye	1	2.4%
Hungary	1	2.4%
Ethiopia	1	2.4%
Yemen	1	2.4%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹²

Alternatives for people set on Appenzell

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Schwende-Rüte as an Appenzell alternative in the same region

2 km away, better on 1 of 4 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Recorded crime, per 100k: 1,808 Schwende-Rüte vs 6,703 Appenzell−73%
Residents: 6,108 Schwende-Rüte vs 6,096 Appenzell+0%
Rent: €16.17/m² Schwende-Rüte vs €16.17/m² Appenzellsame level
Median gross pay, region: €6,952 Schwende-Rüte vs €6,952 Appenzellsame level

Full comparison More about Schwende-Rüte

Bern as an Appenzell alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 155 km, better on 2 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent and recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 137,995 Bern vs 6,096 Appenzell+2164%
Rent: €18.05/m² (2021) Bern vs €16.17/m² (2024) Appenzellno percentage
Nearest airport: 6.0 km Bern vs 21.0 km Appenzell−71%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 20,196 Bern vs 6,703 Appenzellno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €7,310 Bern vs €6,952 Appenzell+5%

Full comparison More about Bern

Cities near Appenzell

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

St. Gallen 10.4 km away

Rent: 15.01 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2021-12-31

Altstätten 11.1 km away

Rent: 13.83 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2021-12-31

Oberriet (SG) 11.4 km away

Rent: 13.24 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2021-12-31

Gaiserwald 12.7 km away

Rent: 15.11 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2021-12-31

Rebstein 14.6 km away

Rent: 14.62 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2021-12-31

Alternative cities in Switzerland

Other cities in Switzerland to compare with Appenzell, nearest in population first.

All Switzerland cities

Zermatt6,099 residents Hitzkirch6,086 residents Schwende-Rüte6,108 residents Interlaken6,123 residents Romont (FR)6,124 residents Uetendorf6,067 residents

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Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Appenzell under the national coverage rules.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 4 to 15, and public school is free. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: Einführungsklassen / integrative DaZ-Sprachförderung (per canton). How to enrol a child (edk.ch).

A country-wide rule for Switzerland; Appenzell's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.

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Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Appenzell?

The published population was 6,096 people in 2024. Source: Switzerland official denominator source.

How safe is Appenzell?

What is the unemployment rate in Appenzell?

The unemployment rate is 0.9 % (2022). Source: Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO.

What is the typical salary around Appenzell?

The median gross salary is 6,952 EUR/month. Source: www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch.

How many foreign residents live in Appenzell?

1,315 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Ständige Wohnbevölkerung, Staatsangehörigkeit = Ausland, Gemeinde grain, 31.12.2024..

Is Appenzell a good place to live?

Appenzell may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Which cities are near Appenzell?

Schwende-Rüte, Teufen (AR), St. Gallen, Altstätten, Oberriet (SG) are near Appenzell. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Place of birth - total live in Appenzell?

The official country of birth distribution records 41 people (100.0%) in the source-defined population for 2025-12-31. This is a country of birth measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Appenzell, Switzerland: population, rent, salary, jobs [ImmigrationDB compilation; version fbd7f2c4221cbdd3fed7edeafab958e6]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/ch/3101-appenzell/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Appenzell, Switzerland: population, rent, salary, jobs},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {fbd7f2c4221cbdd3fed7edeafab958e6},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/ch/3101-appenzell/},
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}

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Durchschnittliche Wohnungsnettomietpreise in CHF/m² nach Wohnungsgrösse, Kanton St.Gallen, Wahlkreise und Gemeinden, Zeitraum 2021-23 sg.ch · checked 2026-10-12
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Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024 pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-07-18
Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik Appenzell Innerrhoden 2025 ai.ch · checked 2026-10-09
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Swiss Federal Statistical Office/OFS/BFS pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-08-08
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