The majority of households occupy their homes as tenants.
Overview
One of the aspects of the buildings and dwellings statistics (StatBL) is to quantify the Swiss housing stock and to analyse it according to certain characteristics such as the number of rooms or surface area. It is an exhaustive survey, based on the Federal register of buildings and dwellings. All dwellings are included, regardless of use.
The analysis of housing conditions is another aspect of the StatBL, whose data are partly drawn from a sample (structural population survey), and partly from a register-based survey.
* missing data have not been accounted
Sources: FSO - Federal Population Census, Buildings and dwellings statistics
In 2021, the Swiss housing stock comprised 4.7 million dwellings. Half of them were situated in the five most populated cantons, i.e. Zurich, Bern, Vaud, Aargau and St.Gallen.
In 1990, the Swiss housing stock comprised 3.2 million dwellings. In 2021, it was more than 45% larger.
Marked differences can be observed regarding the construction period of dwellings and of the buildings in which they are located.
In Switzerland, in 2021, a little more than one dwelling in five was located in a single-family house and one in three dwellings in a large multi-family house with at least seven dwellings.
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