Living in Wil (SG)

In Wil (SG), rent averages €15.11 per m² a month (2021) and unemployment is 2.3% (2022).

The resident counts list 17,034 Swiss permanent residents and 89 non-permanent residents at the end of 2024. At the end of 2024, Wil (SG) had a population of 25,176.

Last checked 2026-10-1017 sources

Population25,176people31 Dec 2024Official source · Switzerland official denominator source

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

Average net rent15.11EUR/m²/month31 Dec 2021Official source · Durchschnittliche Wohnungsnettomietpreise in CHF/m² nach Wohnungsgrösse, Kanton St.Gallen, Wahlkreise und Gemeinden, Zeitraum 2021-23

Unemployment rate2.3%country median 2.3% — about the sameOfficial source · Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO

Recorded crime7,090incidents per 100,000country median 11,440 — 38% belowOfficial source · Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik Kanton St.Gallen 2025

Which Switzerland-wide rules apply when you move to Wil (SG)?

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 Wil (SG).Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Wil (SG)?

Average net cold rent is about 15.11 EUR/m² per month (2021-2023), excluding heating and operating charges.

Published average over existing tenancies; a specific flat can sit either side of it. Asking-rent series, where present, are separate rows in the table.

Average net rent (nettokalt): 15.11 EUR/m²/month · Durchschnittliche Wohnungsnettomietpreise in CHF/m² nach Wohnungsgrösse, Kanton St.Gallen, Wahlkreise und Gemeinden, Zeitraum 2021-23²

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 S¹⁵Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	56.03 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Salt Swiss 10GB¹¹Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	15.11 EUR/m²/month	31 Dec 2021	Durchschnittliche Wohnungsnettomietpreise in CHF/m² nach Wohnungsgrösse, Kanton St.Gallen, Wahlkreise und Gemeinden, Zeitraum 2021-23²Official

Is Wil (SG) a good place to live?

There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.

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Remote worker56%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 47–65%

Skilled employee64%strong on work, weak on education · range 55–73%

Student30%strong on legal route, weak on education · range 20–40%

Family44%strong on family, weak on education · range 35–53%

Retirement44%strong on legal route, weak on admin · range 33–55%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 906 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of about 15.11 EUR/m² per month, before heating and operating charges.

Heating, water and operating charges come on top, and a specific flat can sit either side of an average.

Source period: 2021-2023

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Wil (SG)?

The unemployment rate is 2.3 % (2022). Source: Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO¹

Unemployment across cities in SwitzerlandUnemployment in Wil (SG) is 2.3%. Of 176 cities with data, 52 have unemployment of 2 to under 3%.

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Wil (SG) 2.3%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	6,952 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch¹⁷Official
Unemployment rate	2.3 %country median 2.3% — about the same	31 Dec 2022	Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO¹Official

What does a salary buy in Wil (SG)?

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

Left over each month€4,803of €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€15.11/m² · official · Durchschnittliche Wohnungsnettomietpreise in CHF/m² nach Wohnungsgrösse, Kanton St.Gallen, Wahlkreise und Gemeinden, Zeitraum 2021-23 · 2021-12-31	− €906
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	€4,803

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

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Wil (SG). 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 Wil (SG). Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

How safe is Wil (SG)?

Police recorded about 7,090 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 Kanton St.Gallen 2025¹⁰

Recorded crime across major citiesWil (SG) 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	7,090 incidents per 100,000country median 11,440	31 Dec 2025	Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik Kanton St.Gallen 2025¹⁰Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Wil (SG). 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

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fide language promotion system — State Language Course

State Secretariat for Migration (SEM)

For adult migrants.

German, French, ItalianIn Person, Online

Open official information

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Wil (SG).

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Climate and air quality

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

0°

3°-3°

5°-3°

10°0°

14°3°

19°7°

22°11°

24°13°

19°9°

14°5°

7°1°

4°-2°

JFMAMJJASOND

Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

125

124

126

JFMAMJJASOND

Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

131

164

181

206

225

205

148

JFMAMJJASOND

hours

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Average daytime high by month	Jan 3.3 · Feb 4.9 · Mar 9.9 · Apr 14.4 · May 18.7 · Jun 22.2 · Jul 24.2 · Aug 23.8 · Sep 19 · Oct 13.6 · Nov 7.4 · Dec 3.9 °C	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO⁴Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by month	Jan -2.8 · Feb -3.1 · Mar -0.1 · Apr 2.7 · May 7.2 · Jun 11 · Jul 12.7 · Aug 12.6 · Sep 8.8 · Oct 5.3 · Nov 0.9 · Dec -1.9 °C	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO⁵Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by month	Jan 0.4 · Feb 1 · Mar 4.8 · Apr 8.6 · May 13 · Jun 16.7 · Jul 18.4 · Aug 18 · Sep 13.6 · Oct 9.4 · Nov 4.3 · Dec 1.2 °C	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO⁶Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 74.8 · Feb 71 · Mar 79.8 · Apr 85 · May 124.7 · Jun 124 · Jul 124.1 · Aug 126 · Sep 90.5 · Oct 88.9 · Nov 83.2 · Dec 96.8 mm	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO⁷Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by month	Jan 52.8 · Feb 76.8 · Mar 130.5 · Apr 163.8 · May 180.6 · Jun 205.5 · Jul 225.3 · Aug 205 · Sep 148.4 · Oct 94.2 · Nov 51.2 · Dec 38.9 hours	31 Dec 1991	NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO⁸Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Switzerland: Zürich ±1.0 °C. Elsewhere: Traunreut (Germany) ±0.4 °C, Traunstein (Germany) ±0.4 °C, Trostberg (Germany) ±0.4 °C, Hoyerswerda (Germany) ±0.7 °C, Bad Arolsen (Germany) ±0.7 °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 Wil (SG)?

The published population was 25,176 people in 2024. Source: Switzerland official denominator source¹⁶

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport67.7%
Foreign residents32.3%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Cars per 1,000 residents	524.8 cars/1000 residents	31 Dec 2024	Swiss Federal Statistical Office/OFS/BFS¹⁴Official
City area	20.84 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 km².³Official
Foreign non-permanent residents	89 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁹Official
Foreign residents	8,142 people	31 Dec 2024	Ständige Wohnbevölkerung, Staatsangehörigkeit = Ausland, Gemeinde grain, 31.12.2024.¹²Official
Non-permanent residents	89 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁹Official
Population density	1,208 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).³Official
Population	25,176 people	31 Dec 2024	Switzerland official denominator source¹⁶Official
Swiss non-permanent residents	0 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁹Official
Swiss permanent residents	17,034 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁹Official

International community in Wil (SG)

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	90	100.0%
Abroad	87	96.7%
In Switzerland	3	3.3%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹³

Country of birth

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

Published group	People	Share
Place of birth - total	25,444	100.0%
In Switzerland	16,790	66.0%
Abroad	8,654	34.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹³

Citizenship

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

Published group	People	Share
Citizenship - total	90	100.0%
Germany	23	25.6%
Ukraine	8	8.9%
Somalia	7	7.8%
Türkiye	5	5.6%
Eritrea	4	4.4%
Afghanistan	4	4.4%
Iran	4	4.4%
Italy	3	3.3%
Peru	3	3.3%

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Published group	People	Share
Syria	3	3.3%
Spain	2	2.2%
Slovakia	2	2.2%
Ethiopia	2	2.2%
Belgium	1	1.1%
Bulgaria	1	1.1%
Portugal	1	1.1%
Romania	1	1.1%
Croatia	1	1.1%
Kosovo	1	1.1%
Belarus	1	1.1%
Algeria	1	1.1%
Guinea	1	1.1%
Cameroon	1	1.1%
Congo (Kinshasa)	1	1.1%
Mali	1	1.1%
Togo	1	1.1%
Colombia	1	1.1%
Myanmar	1	1.1%
Sri Lanka	1	1.1%
India	1	1.1%
United Arab Emirates	1	1.1%
South Korea	1	1.1%
Thailand	1	1.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹³

Alternatives for people set on Wil (SG)

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.

St. Gallen as a Wil (SG) alternative in the same country

Better on 1 of 4 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 78,863 St. Gallen vs 25,176 Wil (SG)+213%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 9,783 St. Gallen vs 7,090 Wil (SG)no percentage
Unemployment: 2.0% St. Gallen vs 2.3% Wil (SG)−13%
Rent: €15.01/m² St. Gallen vs €15.11/m² Wil (SG)same level
Median gross pay, region: €6,952 St. Gallen vs €6,952 Wil (SG)same level

Full comparison More about St. Gallen

Alternative cities in Switzerland

Other cities in Switzerland to compare with Wil (SG), nearest in population first.

All Switzerland cities

Baar25,004 residents Wil25,534 residents Wädenswil25,704 residents Horgen24,549 residents Bülach24,508 residents Baden23,853 residents

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Wil (SG) in rankings

#5 of 17 in Cheapest cities to rent in Switzerland #18 of 30 in Safest cities in Switzerland by recorded crime #23 of 30 in Cities with lowest unemployment in Switzerland

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Wil (SG) 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; Wil (SG)'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 Wil (SG)?

The published population was 25,176 people in 2024. Source: Switzerland official denominator source.

How much does it cost to rent in Wil (SG)?

Average net cold rent is about 15.11 EUR/m² per month (2021-2023), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 1,057 EUR a month before utilities. Source: Durchschnittliche Wohnungsnettomietpreise in CHF/m² nach Wohnungsgrösse, Kanton St.Gallen, Wahlkreise und Gemeinden, Zeitraum 2021-23.

How safe is Wil (SG)?

What is the unemployment rate in Wil (SG)?

The unemployment rate is 2.3 % (2022). Source: Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO.

What is the typical salary around Wil (SG)?

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

How many foreign residents live in Wil (SG)?

8,142 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Ständige Wohnbevölkerung, Staatsangehörigkeit = Ausland, Gemeinde grain, 31.12.2024..

Is Wil (SG) a good place to live?

Wil (SG) 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.

How many people born in Place of birth - total live in Wil (SG)?

The official country of birth distribution records 90 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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Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO dam-api.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-08-04
Durchschnittliche Wohnungsnettomietpreise in CHF/m² nach Wohnungsgrösse, Kanton St.Gallen, Wahlkreise und Gemeinden, Zeitraum 2021-23 sg.ch · checked 2026-10-09
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. disseminate.stats.swiss · checked 2026-07-15
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO nodc.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-06
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO nodc.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-06
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO nodc.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-06
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO nodc.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-06
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO nodc.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-06
Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024 pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-07-18
Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik Kanton St.Gallen 2025 sg.ch · checked 2026-10-08

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Salt Swiss 10GB salt.ch · checked 2026-09-15
Ständige Wohnbevölkerung, Staatsangehörigkeit = Ausland, Gemeinde grain, 31.12.2024. pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2024-12-31
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-08-30
Swiss Federal Statistical Office/OFS/BFS pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-08-08
Swisscom blue Internet S swisscom.ch · checked 2026-09-15
Switzerland official denominator source pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-07-14
www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-08-27

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