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Housing and buildings · Switzerland

How does Switzerland live?

Home ownership, rents and vacant homes: three different views of the Swiss housing market, with each source and year kept visible.

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Owner-occupied dwellings · 2024

35.7 %

of occupied dwellings

Vacancy rate on 1 June · 2026

0.93 %

of the previous year’s dwelling stock

Mean monthly net rent · 2024

1,485

CHF per rented dwelling

Who owns or rents their home?

2024 · Published counts of occupied dwellings by tenure. Cooperative homes and other situations are separate categories; the complement of ownership is not labelled renters.

Tenant or subtenant
2,364,439
Cooperative member
112,622
Apartment owner
493,759
House owner
952,808
Other tenure situation
132,376

Has home ownership changed?

Comparable display starts in 2018. The source warns of questionnaire changes in 2015 and methodological changes in 2018; earlier observations are not silently joined.

2018
36.6 %
2019
36.4 %
2020
36.2 %
2021
36.3 %
2022
35.9 %
2023
35.8 %
2024
35.7 %

Source confidence interval: ±0.2 pp

How do rents differ by number of rooms?

2024 · Mean net rent of existing rented dwellings. Heating, hot water and ancillary charges are excluded. This is not an asking-rent index, a household’s total housing spending or a rent per square metre.

1 room
902 CHF
2 rooms
1,217 CHF
3 rooms
1,446 CHF
4 rooms
1,708 CHF
5 rooms
2,068 CHF
6+ rooms
2,578 CHF

How has available vacant housing changed?

Habitable dwellings unoccupied and offered for permanent rent or sale on 1 June. Already rented/sold homes awaiting occupation and homes under construction are excluded. The national rate is taken directly from the source, never averaged across cantons.

The displayed history begins in 2010, when the source switched to the GWS dwelling-stock denominator. Earlier estimates are kept separate.

2010
0.92 %
2011
0.94 %
2012
0.95 %
2013
0.97 %
2014
1.07 %
2015
1.18 %
2016
1.30 %
2017
1.45 %
2018
1.62 %
2019
1.66 %
2020
1.72 %
2021
1.54 %
2022
1.31 %
2023
1.15 %
2024
1.08 %
2025
1.00 %
2026
0.93 %
View values
Year%Vacant dwellings
20100.9236,713
20110.9438,417
20120.9539,284
20130.9740,423
20141.0745,355
20151.1850,476
20161.3056,518
20171.4564,274
20181.6272,294
20191.6675,383
20201.7278,832
20211.5471,365
20221.3161,496
20231.1554,765
20241.0851,974
20251.0048,455
20260.9345,493

Related questions

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Floor area, second homes, mortgages and price trends remain in source review. No unsupported values or CHF/m² estimate is supplied.

Sources and definitions
  • Owner-occupied dwellings · 2024

    BFS / FSO ↗ · XLSX ↗

    Retrieved: 2026-10-31 · Publisher release: 2026-03-05

    SHA-256: c33d40ab2032f4ba777f965baf8b9f7faf190fec7eb64e2d525dba73cf45bf63

    OPEN-BY
  • Vacancy rate on 1 June · 2026

    BFS / FSO ↗ · XLSX ↗

    Retrieved: 2026-10-31 · Publisher release: 2026-09-10

    SHA-256: 3db27af943867a5efa1c49766d632f575cbe0cd387ae4094ef3d462eede3cc89

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  • Mean monthly net rent · 2024

    BFS / FSO ↗ · XLSX ↗

    Retrieved: 2026-10-24 · Publisher release: 2026-03-05

    SHA-256: cbe010c3e9c3ab181d09e8a93c19e2fe3e41b168454aa163ab911d1a1bb110b9

    OPEN-BY