Of the rest of the land, 5.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

It consists of the linear village of Schwellbrunn and a number of scattered farm houses.

Schwellbrunn is the highest elevated village in the canton at 966 meters (3,169 ft).

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (97.0%), with Albanian being second most common ( 1.0%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.7%).

[6] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Schwellbrunn is; 147 people or 10.0% of the population are between 0–6 years old.