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

[3] Törbel has an area, as of 2011[update], of 17.6 square kilometers (6.8 sq mi).

It consists of the village of Törbel and the hamlets of Burge, Feld and Brunnen as well as six additional settlements.

[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][11] The Mill in Törbel is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The entire village of Törbel, and the hamlets of Burge and Feld are all part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 83.59% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 244 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 59.1%.

[15] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 241 votes were cast, of which 5 or about 2.1% were invalid.

[4] There were 216 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.5% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 2 or 5.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 5.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 21 or 53.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 7.7% were in education.

Netting wrote in his introduction that he was led to Törbel by a description of "several villages in Vispertal, the largest of which was Törbel," in a monograph by the Swiss ethnographer and agriculturalist Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler.

[20] From the 2000 census[update], 473 or 95.0% were Roman Catholic, while 5 or 1.0% 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 Törbel attend their school in a neighboring municipality.