Overview

The population of Lancy has changed to 36’229. This amounts to a change of 6.59% in 3 years.

Population statistics

The average income here is CHF 77’590. A total of 22.91% of the population hold a university degree, 6.83% have completed higher vocational training, 42% of the population have an SEK II qualification (school-leaving certificate or apprenticeship) and 28.26% of residents are currently completing compulsory schooling. This means the region has high social standards and an educated population. 2.08% of the population is currently unemployed.

Taxes

The area has an overall rate of taxation of 12.79%. The actual proportion of tax paid differs from person to person and is based on aspects including current income, marital status, the total amount of deductions and so on. Retired, married couples (over 65) pay an average of 16.13% tax in Lancy, married couples with two children 7.31% and couples without children 12.19%. The tax burden for an unmarried person with no children is 20.28%.

New construction

Lancy has recorded the construction of 1742 new apartments over the last 5 years. The 255 1-bedroom apartments are particularly suitable for people living alone. There are also 397 new 2-room apartments. Living space for families has also been constructed: For example, 562 apartments with 3 rooms and 403 4-room apartments were added to the pool of housing available locally. 113 apartments with 5 rooms and 12 apartments with 6 or more rooms have been added to the local housing stock.

Housing stock

Thanks to the construction of new dwellings, the housing stock in Lancy has changed, and there are now a total of 16’112 apartments. The number of 1-room apartments is 1403. Additionally, there are 3130 apartments with 2 rooms, 5561 apartments with 3 rooms and 4228 apartments with a full 4 rooms. Finally, the stock of 5-room properties includes 1255 apartments, and there are also 535 large apartments with at least 6 rooms.

Unoccupied apartments

The rate of vacant apartments in Lancy is 0.23%. Consequently, 0.36% of the 1-room apartments, 0.32% of apartments with 2 rooms, 0.14% of the apartments with 3 rooms, 0.24% of apartments with 4 rooms and 0.32% of 5-room apartments are empty. Apartments with more than 5 rooms have a vacancy rate of 0.22%; 0% of this figure refers to apartments with more than 6 rooms.

Property market (letting only)

Rents for rental properties are, on average, around 2397 CHF per month. In terms of the available rents, a quarter of them are equal to or lower than a monthly rent of 1900 CHF. And 75% of monthly rents are less than or equivalent to 2850 CHF (75th percentile).