The municipality consists of the village of Paradiso, which is made up of the sections of Calprino, Guidino, Fontana and Morchino. Paradiso has an area, , of . Of this area, or 37.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 58.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 33.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 20.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.4%. Out of the forested land, 30.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 2.2% is used for growing crops, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops and 33.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is "Vert a lion rampant or and in a base argent three bendlets wavy of the first"  Paradiso has a population of 4524, based on the official 2012 figures published by the town, of which 1960 are Swiss nationals and 2564 foreign nationals. Most of the population () speaks Italian (66.7%), with German being second most common (10.0%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (6.9%). Of the Swiss national languages (), 370 speak German, 99 people speak French, 2,463 people speak Italian, and 3 people speak Romansh. The remainder (759 people) speak another language. The gender distribution of the population was 2310 male and 2214 female. In there were 25 live births to Swiss citizens and 19 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 21 deaths of Swiss citizens and 13 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 4 while the foreign population increased by 6. There were 3 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland and 3 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 100 non-Swiss men and 65 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.