Baltschieder is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Baltschieder has an area, as of 2011[update], of 31.4 square kilometers (12.1 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Visp district, at the end of the Baltschieder valley.

The proposed merger of the municipalities of Eggerberg, Ausserberg, Bürchen, Baltschieder, Visp and Visperterminen was rejected by the residents.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,020 or 97.1%) as their first language, French is the second most common (7 or 0.7%) and Albanian is the third (7 or 0.7%).

[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 58.15% of the vote.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 493 votes were cast, of which 11 or about 2.2% were invalid.

[4] There were 490 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.8% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 8 or 21.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 8.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 6 or 16.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 10 or 27.0% were in education.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 952 or 90.7% were Roman Catholic, while 34 or 3.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The education system in the Canton of Valais allows young children to attend one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten.

All the lower and upper secondary students from Baltschieder attend their school in a neighboring municipality.