
City · Valais
The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany, between the lower Rhine and Elbe rivers. Many of their neighbours were, like them, speakers of West Germanic dialects, including both the Franks and Thuringians to the south, and the coastal Frisians and Angles to the north who were among the peoples who were originally referred to as "Saxons" in the context of early raiding and settlements in Roman Britain and Gaul. To their east were Obotrites and other Slavic-speaking peoples.
The rental vacancy rate is 3.41%, 186% above the cantonal average (1.19 %) — a comparatively relaxed market. The municipal tax multiplier (Steuerfuss) is 120%, 3% above the cantonal average (117 %). Median taxable income is CHF 49'850, 20% below the Swiss median (CHF 61'929). Saxon has 7'605 residents (2025).
Source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS).