{"id":97331,"date":"2021-04-20T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T12:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/statistica-delle-citta-svizzere-2021-e-le-dinamiche-urbane\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T13:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:08:52","slug":"swiss-city-statistics-2021-and-urban-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/swiss-city-statistics-2021-and-urban-dynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"“Swiss city statistics 2021” and urban dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Swiss city statistics 2021” and urban dynamics<\/h1>\n

In the last twenty years, three quarters of the Swiss population have chosen to live in the centers: this is explained by the latest Yearbook of the Federal Office and the Municipalities<\/em><\/h3>\n

Three quarters of Switzerland’s population live in urban areas. They do so in some 2 million dwellings distributed in just under 540,000 city buildings.
\nNearly three-quarters of the dwellings are occupied by renters, most of whom live in three-room apartments. This is what the results of the “Swiss City Statistics 2021”, focusing on the theme of “Living in the City”, report.<\/p>\n

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The Union of Swiss Cities publishes the yearbook in collaboration with the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
\nAfter an urban exodus in the 1980s and 1990s, Swiss cities have undergone a renaissance in the last twenty years. Today, three-quarters of Switzerland’s population live in urban areas.
\nThree-quarters of the population of Switzerland now live in urban areas. 19% of the inhabitants of the 171 cities surveyed are aged 19 or younger, 63% are aged 20 to 64 and 18% are in the 65+ age group.<\/p>\n

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The countryside of Geneva near Lake Geneva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Few demographic differences with the countryside<\/h4>\n

The age structure differs only slightly from the rest of Switzerland.
\nForty-seven percent of the urban population is unmarried (compared to 42% in the rest of Switzerland) and 31% of city dwellers come from abroad, while foreigners outside urban areas make up only 20% of the population.
\nWhether such a “population mix” is and remains possible depends very much on the configuration of the housing market.<\/p>\n

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In 2018, a total of 2.2 million dwellings were available in 539,767 urban residential buildings in the 171 Swiss cities under review.
\nOf these, 46.8 percent were single-family homes, while 35.6 were multi-family. Looking at the distribution by size class of municipalities, we see that the proportion of single-family homes increases as the size of the municipality decreases.
\nThe opposite is true, however, for multifamily housing: while the ten largest cities have an average share of over 43 percent, this is less than 33 percent in the remaining 161 cities.<\/p>\n

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Roche Tower in Basel, home of pharmaceuticals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three-room apartments dominate under 20,000 inhabitants<\/h4>\n

In terms of housing size, three-bedroom apartments are the most common size in most municipal size classes.
\nIn towns with a population of less than 20,000, however, four-room dwellings are slightly in the majority. Large dwellings with five or more rooms are rarer in large cities, where they account for 9.8 percent of the total, while their share in other size classes is 19 percent.
\nSixty-nine percent of urban renters live in a dwelling consisting of three or four rooms. In contrast, the majority of homeowners living in Swiss cities (86.5 percent) have a dwelling with four or more rooms.<\/p>\n

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The M\u00fcnsterbr\u00fccke in Zurich, home of finance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The larger the city, the more renters there are<\/h4>\n

Between 2015 and 2017 (cumulative data), 74 percent of occupied housing in Swiss cities was occupied by renters and members of housing cooperatives, while 25 percent was occupied by owners.<\/p>\n

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In Brig-Glis, M\u00f6hlin, Spiez and Uzwil, more than half of the occupied dwellings are privately owned. In Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich and Carouge, by contrast, more than 90 percent of the dwellings are rented or owned by cooperatives.<\/p>\n

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Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva near Lausanne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leveraging the provision of fair housing<\/h4>\n

Cities are increasingly investing in utility housing to house the socially and economically disadvantaged.
\nWhile public housing accounts for 1.3 percent of Switzerland’s housing stock, large cities are well above the Swiss average at 11.4 percent.<\/p>\n

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In the city of Zurich, 22.4 percent of all three-room apartments and 24.4 percent of all four-room apartments are public utility housing.
\nHowever, some smaller cities, such as Urdorf and Birsfelden, also have a sizable proportion of such housing, with about 15 percent each.<\/p>\n

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Christmas lights illiminate the center of Zurich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FDP and SP are the best represented parties<\/h4>\n

As usual, the “Statistics of Swiss Cities” also includes data on city politics.
\nThe survey was optimized in 2020 in cooperation with the FSO’s Politics, Culture and Media section.
\nNow the data present the status of the most recent full renewal elections.
\nThe leading parties in city politics are the FDP and the SP. In 2020, the FDP won 27.2 percent of the seats in municipal executives.
\nIt is followed by the SP with 20.6 percent. The FDP lost 0.2 percent from the previous year and thus still holds 15.1 percent of the seats.
\nThe SVP retains fourth place, although it lost 0.2 percent to 11.4 percent.
\nThe Greens gained 0.8 percent more seats than in the previous year and now hold 7.7 percent of the seats in municipal executives.
\nIn the legislatures, the FDP holds 22.3 percent, followed by the SP with 20.9 percent and the SVP with 15.3 percent. In fourth place are the Greens, with 11.6 percent of the seats, while the CVP came in at 9.3 percent.<\/p>\n

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The famous United Nations Building in Geneva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Available in digital format and as OGD<\/h4>\n

The 82nd edition of the “Swiss City Statistics” is published in collaboration with the FSO.
\nIn addition to data on city living, it contains as usual numerous facts and information on topics such as population, work and income, finances, mobility and education.<\/p>\n

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The contents are also available in digital format with interactive graphics, for viewing in an App, and as an online publication.
\nIn addition, the FSO also makes the data used to produce the publication available to a wide audience in its own catalogs and on the opendata.swiss platform, so that interested parties can make further use of it.<\/p>\n

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The old town of Burgdorf in Canton Bern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n