Emmen is a village and municipality in the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

After the Battle of Sempach in 1386 the Habsburg's lost Emmen and it became part of the Canton of Lucerne.

In 2008, the municipality of Emmen as well as Adligenswil, Ebikon, Horw and Kriens participated in the «Starke Stadtregion Luzern» project.

In 2011, the merger was proposed by the project management as the most suitable means for the further development of the region around Lucerne.

As a result, Thomas Willi who was the president of the municipality at the time and strongly advocated for a merger resigned.

As every Swiss municipality Emmen has a legislative and executive body, the Einwohnerrat and the Gemeinderat.

[5] In the 2023 Swiss federal elections, the voter percentages in Emmen were: SVP 28.7%, SP 15.8%, Mitte 21.0%, FDP 17.3%, GPS 7.6%, glp 6.7%, EVP 0.8% and 2.2% for other smaller parties.

Of the rest of the land, 33.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.9%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

Of the settled areas, 14.55% is covered with buildings, 5.7% is industrial, 1.62% is classed as special developments, 1.97% is parks or greenbelts and 9.49% is transportation infrastructure.

The municipality of Emmen hit international headlines in 2001 when it announced new naturalization law.

The biggest employers in these areas are Schmolz + Bickenbach, Emmi AG and Ruag respectively.

[8] In the 2000 census[update] the religious membership of Emmen was; 17,253 (64.2%) were Roman Catholic, and 3,416 (12.7%) were Protestant, with an additional 1,327 (4.94%) that were of some other Christian faith.

[8] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] The municipality is thoroughly served by Lucerne's urban transit system VBL, which is part of the fare network passepartout.

The military airbase Emmen Air Base (IATA: EML, ICAO: LSME) is part of the municipality.