Randa is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
The village is accessible by road and rail, and it has a campsite which offers a taxi service to Zermatt, a car-free town.
[3] In 1819, the village was almost totally destroyed by the blast from a huge avalanche that fell nearby.
It was opened in 2017 as part of the Europaweg, the scenic hiking route between Grächen and Zermatt.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Divided by a Bend Argent, Gules a Mullet [of Six] of the First and Vert an Edelweiss proper slipped.
[5] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (320 or 79.2%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (55 or 13.6%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (17 or 4.2%).
[5] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 72.09% of the vote.
[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 164 votes were cast, of which 6 or about 3.7% were invalid.
[5] There were 188 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.0% of the workforce.
The number of jobs in the primary sector was 13, of which 6 were in agriculture and 7 were in forestry or lumber production.
In the tertiary sector; 1 was in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 7.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 12 or 44.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 2 or 7.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 18.5% were in education.
[5] From the 2000 census[update], 328 or 81.2% were Roman Catholic, while 11 or 2.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.