[3] Flüelen formed an important transshipment point on Switzerland's transport system for many centuries, and at least since the opening of the first track across the Gotthard Pass in 1230.

Over the same time period, the amount of recreational space in the municipality increased by 2 ha (4.9 acres) and is now about 0.56% of the total area.

Over the same time period the amount of forested land has increased by 7 ha (17 acres).

It developed as a transshipment point on the trade routes over the Gotthard pass and along the lake.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (93.6%), with Italian being second most common (2.0%) and Albanian being third (1.6%).

Of these, a total of 59 people worked in 14 businesses in the primary economic sector.

[9] In 2015 local hotels had a total of 12,467 overnight stays, of which 74.8% were international visitors.

In the federal election, a total of 830 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 59.8%.

[13] In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the Swiss Criminal Code (running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Flüelen was 44.3 per thousand residents, which is only 68.6% of the average rate in the entire country.

[20] Flüelen railway station, on the Gotthard railway, is served by hourly InterRegio trains, and by line S2 of the Stadtbahn Zug, which operates hourly between Zug, Arth-Goldau and Erstfeld.

In 1906, the Altdorf–Flüelen tramway was constructed to connect the centre of Altdorf with Fluelen railway station.