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

[4] The municipality is located in the Visp district, on the eastern and western sides of the entrance into the Saas valley.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert, a Lamb Argent passant over a Coupeaux Or, a chief Azure.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (217 or 96.0%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (7 or 3.1%) and Romansh is the third (1 or 0.4%).

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][10] The entire village of Eisten is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[13] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 107 votes were cast, of which 1 or about 0.9% were invalid.

[4] There were 88 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 30.7% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 7 of which 6 or (85.7%) were in manufacturing The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 4, of which 3 were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles and 1 was in a hotel or restaurant.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 208 or 92.0% were Roman Catholic, while 1 or 0.4% 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 Eisten attend their school in a neighboring municipality.