Boundaries of urban quarters of Swiss cities

With the project City Statistics (previously Urban Audit) the FSO publishes in collaboration with the most important Swiss cities 200 indicators about three different spatial units (agglomerations, core municipalities, and city quarters or neighborhoods). This serves as base information for comparisons on different aspects of living conditions in these cities. The infracommunal subdivisions used for this purpose are based on former city quarters which were surveyed with the population censuses of 1990 and 2000 and updated with data furnished by the concerned cities.

The outside boundaries of city quarters were adjusted to the 2024 edition of the communal boundaries (swissBOUNDARIES^3D) and of shores of eventually adjoining lakes (swissTLM^3D) to ensure data consistency and to enable combinations with other geodata.

The presently available geodata contain quarters from 11 Swiss cities. Hence, they do not replace completely the city quarters of 17 cities published in 2006 for the last time. These geodata remain accessible for holders of a geodata subscription, but they are no longer updated.

City quarter boundaries, latest edition

The eleven cities included in the dataset
FSO commune number	City	Number of quarters
230	Winterthur	42
261	Zürich	34
351	Bern	32
371	Biel / Bienne	10
1061	Luzern	26
2196	Fribourg	12
2701	Basel	19
3203	St. Gallen	14
5192	Lugano	26
5586	Lausanne	19
6621	Genève	16

City quarter boundaries, 2006 edition

For the first time, boundaries of city quarters of the 14 largest Swiss cities were identified and digitized as part of the processing of the National Census 1990. These boundaries were updated after completion of the Census 2000 and complemented by the quarters of three additional cities, resulting in the boundaries of infracommunal subdivisions of the 17 largest cities with the reference year of 2004. On intervention of Winterthur, in 2006 a more detailed subdivision was included for this city. At the same time, the outside boundaries of all 17 cities were adjusted to the official communal boundaries GG25-2006, which led to subtle modifications for another two cities (Geneva and Lugano) in the 2006 dataset.

The 17 cities included in the datasets
FSO commune number	City	Number of quarters
230	Winterthur	7 (2004)
230	Winterthur	42 (2006)
261	Zürich	34
351	Bern	32
355	Köniz	11
371	Biel / Bienne	10
942	Thun	16
1061	Luzern	20
2196	Fribourg	8
2701	Basel	19
2939	Schaffhausen	6
3203	St. Gallen	14
3901	Chur	8
5192	Lugano	17
5586	Lausanne	19
6421	La Chaux-de-Fonds	18
6458	Neuchâtel	12
6621	Genève	16

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