Additional information

Synopsis

Speicher has grown by 0.5% in the past 3 years, to 4,430 inhabitants.

Demographics

Average income is CHF 80,440.

In the region, 18.82% of the population have a university degree, 18.22% of residents have completed higher vocational education, 45.72% have an SEK II qualification (school-leaving certificate or apprenticeship) and 17.27% are currently completing compulsory education.

The unemployment rate currently stands at 0.5%.

Taxes

The tax percentage in the region is 12.54%. Income, marital status and deductions are among the factors that impact the actual tax burden.

In Speicher, the tax burden is 16.28% for a single person with no children. On average, a married couple on a pension (over 65) pay 16.08%, a married couple with two children 8.8% and a childless couple 11.47%%.

The property market in general

New builds

Speicher has seen the construction of 96 new apartments over the last 5 years.

In terms of 2-room apartments, 9 properties were newly constructed.

22 new apartments with 3 rooms and 28 apartments with 4 rooms were also created in the area.

Investments were also made in larger apartments: 17 5-room apartments were built, providing lots of room for families; 20 apartments with a minimum of 6 rooms were also created.

Given the large number of spacious apartments in Speicher, it is clearly an attractive location for families.

Housing stock

The new construction has contributed to a further expansion of the housing stock, and there are now 2,163 apartments in Speicher.

The number of 1-room apartments totals 52.

There are also 172 apartments with 2 rooms, 414 apartments with 3 rooms and 564 4-room apartments.

The 5-room apartments also make up a total of 449 properties, while the apartments with a minimum of 6 rooms account for 512.

Vacant apartments

There is a 0.97% vacancy rate in Speicher.

This means that 4.07% of the 2-room apartments,

1.45% of all 3-room apartments,

0.71% of the apartments with 4 rooms

and 0.45% of 5-room apartments are unoccupied.

The vacancy rate for apartments with more than 5 rooms is 0.42%; 0.39% of those empty properties are apartments with at least 6 rooms.

Property market (rental only)

Rental properties are offered at average rental prices of about CHF 1,380 per month.

25% of the rents on offer are cheaper than or equal to a monthly rent of CHF 1,180 (25th percentile).

The 75th percentile of monthly rents is CHF 1,621.