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

[5] Lalden has an area, as of 2011[update], of 1.3 square kilometers (0.50 sq mi).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Latin Cross Argent issuant from Coupeaux Vert between three Mullets [of Six] Or.

[6] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (626 or 96.2%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (12 or 1.8%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (10 or 1.5%).

[12] The historical population is given in the following chart:[5][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 78.96% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 351 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 68.4%.

[15] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 349 votes were cast, of which 6 or about 1.7% were invalid.

[6] There were 270 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 31.1% of the workforce.

A PostAuto bus service links Lalden village to Brig and Visp.

[3][19][20] From the 2000 census[update], 599 or 92.0% were Roman Catholic, while 11 or 1.7% 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 Lalden attend their school in a neighboring municipality.

[22] As of 2000[update], there were 61 students from Lalden who attended schools outside the municipality.