524 results - Apartment for rent in Canton Lucerne (Luzern)

Overview

The Canton Lucerne is an area that is becoming increasingly attractive to residents. In the past 3 years, the population has grown to 424,851 inhabitants, which is equivalent to a population increase of 2.84%.

Demographic data

Average income totals CHF 75,625.

14.71% of the population have a university degree, 17.1% have a higher vocational training qualification, 47.26% have an SEK II qualification (school-leaving certificate or apprenticeship), 20.92% are completing compulsory schooling and 0.01% of the population did not indicate their highest level of education.

The region is prestigious due to its high social standards and educated population.

The unemployment rate currently stands at 0.72%.

Taxes

The tax rate for the residential region is 11.99%. It varies from person to person and is based on factors such as actual income, marital status and the overall level of deductions.

A married couple on a pension in the Canton Lucerne pays an average of 15.66%, a married couple with two children 7.91% and married couples without children 11.99%%. The tax percentage for a single person with no children is 15.97%.

The property market in general

New builds

In the last 5 years, the number of newly constructed apartments in the Canton Lucerne has risen steadily. A total of 13,668 new apartments have been built.

368 of the new builds are 1-room apartments, which are perfect for people living alone.

There are also 2,772 new 2-room apartments.

Additionally, 4,333 3-room apartments and 3,757 4-room apartments have been added to the pool of housing available locally in recent years.

The available housing stock was also expanded to include 1,693 5-room apartments and 745 apartments with a minimum of 6 rooms.

Housing stock

The new buildings have contributed to an additional increase in the housing supply, and there are now 208,942 apartments in the Canton Lucerne.

The number of 1-room apartments in the overall housing supply is 9,019.

In addition, there are 25,824 apartments with 2 rooms, 52,079 apartments with 3 rooms and 64,200 apartments with 4 rooms.

There are 34,660 5-room apartments and 23,160 large apartments with at least 6 rooms.

Unoccupied apartments

In the Canton Lucerne, there is a 0.96% vacancy rate for apartments.

Of this total, 2.09% of 1-room apartments,

1.2% of the 2-room apartments,

1.31% of the 3-room apartments,

0.82% of apartments with 4 rooms

and 0.52% of all 5-room apartments are presently empty.

Apartments with more than 5 rooms have a vacancy rate of 0.53%; of that figure, 0.55% are apartments with more than 6 rooms.

Property market (letting only)

The average rent for a flat is CHF 1,580.

A quarter of rents are less than or equivalent to a monthly rent of CHF 1,325 (25th percentile).

Monthly rents are less than CHF 1,880 (75th percentile), or they are equal to this average price.