{"id":234272,"date":"2024-09-24T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/classifica-comuni-svizzeri-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T08:30:19","slug":"switzerland-municipalities-ranking-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/switzerland-municipalities-ranking-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Municipalities Ranking 2024: Central Switzerland Leads the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span class=\"font-377884\">Swiss Municipalities Ranking 2024: Central Switzerland Leads the Way<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3><span class=\"font-377884\"><em>The best municipalities for living in Switzerland are in Central Switzerland, with Meggen (LU) in first place, followed by Hergiswil (NW) and Oberkirch (LU). <\/em> <\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_234263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234263\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Meggen-LU-Image-by-Jozsef-Farago-from-Pixabay-1024x848.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-234263\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Meggen-LU-Image-by-Jozsef-Farago-from-Pixabay-1024x848.jpg\" alt=\"Meggen (LU) - Lake Lucern Image by Jozsef Farago from Pixabay\" width=\"840\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Meggen-LU-Image-by-Jozsef-Farago-from-Pixabay-1024x848.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Meggen-LU-Image-by-Jozsef-Farago-from-Pixabay-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Meggen-LU-Image-by-Jozsef-Farago-from-Pixabay-768x636.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Meggen-LU-Image-by-Jozsef-Farago-from-Pixabay-1536x1272.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Meggen-LU-Image-by-Jozsef-Farago-from-Pixabay-350x290.jpg 350w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Meggen-LU-Image-by-Jozsef-Farago-from-Pixabay.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"font-377884\">Meggen (LU) &#8211; Lake Lucern Image by Jozsef Farago from Pixabay<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\">This ranking, compiled by Handelszeitung in cooperation with the Zurich-based consultancy firm IAZI, is based on 51 factors including taxes, property prices, security, infrastructure, location, educational offerings, shopping opportunities and other aspects. 954 municipalities with more than 2,000 inhabitants were analysed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\"><strong>Meggen (LU)<\/strong> was voted the best municipality in Switzerland for 2024, due to factors such as low taxes and a strategic location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\"><strong>Hergiswil (NW)<\/strong> and <strong>Oberkirch (LU)<\/strong> took second and third place, while <strong>Zug<\/strong> and <strong>Cham (ZG)<\/strong>, last year&#8217;s winners, dropped to fourth and fifth respectively. The Top 10 is completed by <strong>Zollikon (Zurich), Freienbach (Schwyz), K\u00fcsnacht (Zurich), H\u00fcnenberg (Zug)<\/strong> and <strong>Kilchberg (Zurich).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/cow-as-ambassador-of-switzerland\/\">The cow as ambassador of Switzerland<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\">Large cities declined, with Zurich in 54th place, Basel in 486th and Berne in 491st, partly due to housing and employment difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"font-377884\"><strong>Val-de-Travers (NE),<\/strong> a municipality in western Switzerland, ranked last: with a population of 10,550, it has the highest taxes in Switzerland and suffers from poor transport links and few jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best municipalities for living in Switzerland are in Central Switzerland, with Meggen (LU) in first place, followed by Hergiswil (NW) and Oberkirch (LU). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":234264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,361,360,328,260,210,257],"tags":[498,398,2015,887,411,963],"class_list":["post-234272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canton-lucerne","category-canton-neuchatel","category-canton-nidwalden","category-canton-zug","category-highlights","category-magazine","category-switzerland","tag-cantons","tag-federalism","tag-life-quality","tag-switzerland-en","tag-tax-competition","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234274,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234272\/revisions\/234274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}