For the first time in Switzerland there are a million single-family homes

Create, create, build houses, that’s what the Swabian savers say. But the Swiss are not inferior to them. In 2019, more than a million single-family homes were counted in Switzerland for the first time, more precisely 1’000’700 according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

Compared with the previous year, the rest of the types of housing have also increased, in general the apartments of all categories have increased practically linearly in recent years, as shown by the latest figures from the FSO.

In 2019 there were 3.83 million inhabited apartments in Switzerland, compared to 3.78 million the previous year and 3.6 million five years ago. Last year there were 2.21 million inhabited apartments in multi-family housing, 2.17 million the previous year and 2.07 million five years ago. Inhabited single-family homes increased from 844,000 in 2014 to 859,000 in 2018 and almost 861,000 last year.

Every year there is a significant difference in the distribution of living space between domestic and foreign households: while foreign and Swiss-foreign households together only live in a fifth of single-family houses (with a quarter of foreigners), they achieve an above-average 50 share of rental apartments. Percent.

The Swiss are also privileged in terms of residential density. While the density in Swiss multi-person households is 2.8 on average, it is 3.1 to 3.2 in mixed and foreign households. Pensioners live more spaciously: there is an average of 1.4 per apartment. Among those under 64 years of age, the majority probably families, the average rate is 3.7.