Electricity (H4) 21.15 cents/kWh, 22.0% cheaper than the Swiss average
H4 price comparison
Electricity 2027
Standard product
Elektrizitätsversorgung Egerkingen
| 2-room flat2-rmH1 · 1,600 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 4-room flat4-rmH2 · 2,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 4-room flat with electric water heater4-rmH3 · 4,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room flat5-rmH4 · 4,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room detached house5-rmH5 · 7,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room detached house with electric heating5-rmH6 · 25,000 kWh/yearcents/kWh | 5-room detached house with heat pump5-rmH7 · 13,000 kWh/yearcents/kWh | large owner-occupied flatflatH8 · 7,500 kWh/yearcents/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25.50 cents/kWh▼ 12.1% | 23.07 cents/kWh▼ 11.0% | 21.15 cents/kWh▼ 9.9% | 21.15 cents/kWh▼ 9.9% | 20.19 cents/kWh▼ 9.2% | 19.18 cents/kWh▼ 8.4% | 19.58 cents/kWh▼ 8.8% | 20.19 cents/kWh▼ 9.2% |
H4 breakdown
- Grid usage5.75 cents/kWh
- Energy10.90 cents/kWh
- Levies1.00 cents/kWh
- Grid surcharge2.30 cents/kWh
- Standing charge54 CHF/year
Health insurance 2027
- Adultsfrom 503.80 CHF/month▲ 3.6%
- Adults, on average632.73 CHF/month▲ 4.8%
- Young adultsfrom 367.80 CHF/month▲ 6.5%
- Young adults, on average470.17 CHF/month▲ 4.9%
- Childrenfrom 110.80 CHF/month▲ 3.5%
- Children, on average150.74 CHF/month▲ 4.7%
Premium region in Solothurn: all municipalities
Population 2025
- Residents4,365
- Foreign share37.9%
- Ages 0–19960 · 22.0%
- Ages 20–642,598 · 59.5%
- Ages 65 and over807 · 18.5%
- Residents per km²628.1
Geography
- Altitude426–966 m
- Lakeno
- Mountain municipalityno
The rule: a settlement altitude of at least 1,000 m. That altitude is not shown as a figure.
Climate, 1991–2020 averages
- Temperature9.1 °C
- Annual precipitation1,124 mm
- Sunshine, share of possible hours40.8%
- Frost days92.2
- Days of 30 °C or more12.2
- Reference stationWynau, 7.9 km
Context
Egerkingen sits in the figures as follows.
Egerkingen is not a mountain municipality, by the altitude of the settlement.
18.5% of the people in Egerkingen are older, 22.0% are young and 59.5% are of working age.
4,365 people live in Egerkingen. That is 628.1 per square kilometre.
1,124 mm of precipitation and 40.8% relative sunshine go with 9.1 °C in Egerkingen, period 1991-2020.
Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss official commune register, as of 13.10.2026 Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Spatial divisions of Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026 Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D
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Questions
What do population, geography and climate say about Egerkingen?
Egerkingen is not a mountain municipality, by the altitude of the settlement. 18.5% of the people in Egerkingen are older, 22.0% are young and 59.5% are of working age. 4,365 people live in Egerkingen. That is 628.1 per square kilometre. 1,124 mm of precipitation and 40.8% relative sunshine go with 9.1 °C in Egerkingen, period 1991-2020.
Border neighbours
- Egerkingen or Langenbruck511 m · 32.1%
- Egerkingen or Neuendorf1,947 m · 32.1%
- Egerkingen or Härkingen1,786 m · 28.0%
- Egerkingen or Oberbuchsiten2,047 m · 26.1%
- Egerkingen or Holderbank (SO)1,788 m · 25.2%
- Egerkingen or Gunzgen268 m · 22.4%
- Egerkingen or Hägendorf3,018 m · 22.4%
Nearby municipalities
- Living in Neuendorf2.1 km
- Living in Härkingen2.4 km
- Living in Oberbuchsiten2.4 km
- Living in Gunzgen2.8 km
- Living in Holderbank (SO)3.0 km
- Living in Niederbuchsiten3.2 km
- Living in Langenbruck3.6 km
- Living in Hägendorf4.0 km
Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D Straight-line distance between municipality centres.
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- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss official commune register, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Spatial divisions of Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), STATPOP 2025, as of 20.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), geographic key figures, as of 20.10.2026
- Source: Federal Electricity Commission ElCom, Electricity tariff per provider and municipality in Switzerland, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Electricity Commission ElCom, Consumption profiles, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Health insurance premiums, opendata.swiss, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), premium regions under the FDHA Ordinance on Premium Regions, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: MeteoSwiss, as of 20.10.2026
- Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Commune names with common translations, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (SR 101), Art. 1, as of 13.10.2026
- Source: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D