Vacancy rate by commune
The vacancy rate is the share of dwellings standing empty and on the market on 1 June. This page maps the Federal Statistical Office's annual count for every commune since 2006. Slide through the years, or switch to the one-year or ten-year change to see where the market is tightening.
Measure: vacant dwellings as a share of all dwellings, counted each year on 1 June by the Federal Statistical Office.
Latest count 1 June 2026 · published 10 September 2026 · retrieved 2 November 2026
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- What counts as vacant
- A dwelling that is empty on 1 June and offered on the market, to rent for at least three months or for sale. Furnished flats and holiday homes count if they can be lived in all year. Flats already let or sold, or not on the market, do not.
- The rate is a share of all dwellings
- Vacant dwellings divided by the commune's total dwelling stock in the previous year's building and dwelling register. Houses and flats, rented and owned, are all in it.
- For rent and for sale are counts, not rates
- The FSO publishes a rate only for all dwellings together. The split by offer, building type and age appears in each commune's panel as counts and shares of the vacant stock.
- Small communes swing
- Where a commune has only a few hundred dwellings, one flat coming onto the market moves the rate by several tenths of a point. Read the trend line, not a single year.
- Change is in percentage points
- A move from 1.00 % to 1.50 % is +0.50 points, not +50 %. Any fall is orange (fewer dwellings empty, a tightening market), any rise is blue; only communes with exactly no change stay grey.
- Every year is on today's communes
- The FSO publishes the whole series on the 2026 commune list, so communes that have since merged are already combined and the history is comparable.
- Commercial space is not included
- There is no national count of empty offices or shops by commune. This map covers dwellings only.
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