Lax is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

The first division of irrigation was in 1347; the current system feeds seven farms around the small town.

[4] Lax has an area, as of 2011[update], of 5 square kilometers (1.9 sq mi).

[5] The municipality is located above the Deisch valley on a small plateau on the right bank of the Rhone.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a mountain fesswise Argent, in chief three pine trees eradicated Vert trunked proper.

[5] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 63.01% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 129 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 56.3%.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 124 votes were cast, of which 7 or about 5.6% were invalid.

[5] There were 163 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 36.8% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 10 or 21.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 9 or 19.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 10.6% were in the information industry, 7 or 14.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 11 or 23.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 1 was in education.

[5] The principal landmark is the neo-Gothic church of Saint Anne, designed by Antonio Croci, which dates from 1868.

From the 2000 census[update], 248 or 85.5% were Roman Catholic, while 11 or 3.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.