1.4 million households own their own home
Published: Monday, Mar 18th 2024, 12:10
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In 2022, 1.4 million households owned their own property. This corresponds to 36% of all private households in Switzerland. 730,000 of these households owned a single-family home. This was announced by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) on Monday.
The residents of 2.4 million households in Switzerland live in rental properties, according to a press release. The average rent for 4-room apartments is CHF 1,622 per month. Apartments that were built less than two years ago are the most expensive. A new 4-room apartment costs an average of CHF 2138 per month. The rent is lower the longer the residents of a private household live in a rented apartment.
Housing is most expensive in the major conurbations. At an average of CHF 1997 per month for a 4-room apartment, Zurich has the highest average rent of the largest Swiss cities.
70 percent of all rental apartments are heated with fossil fuels such as heating oil or gas. The figure for owner-occupied apartments is 57 percent. The FSO attributes this to the fact that tenants are more likely to live in large buildings equipped with oil and gas boilers.
Due to the spatial distribution, rented apartments are also more frequently connected to district heating systems than owner-occupied apartments. On the other hand, owner-occupied apartments are more often equipped with a heat pump (24%) than rented apartments (12%).
Privately owned rental apartments
In 2023, almost half (45%) of rental apartments were owned by private individuals. Of these, 43% of small rental apartments with one or two rooms were owned by private individuals. The figure for large rental apartments with five or more rooms was 54%.
The canton of Geneva had the smallest proportion of privately owned rental apartments at around a quarter. In the cantons of Valais and Ticino, the proportion was significantly higher at almost 70% each.
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