Living in Davos

In Davos, unemployment is 0.6% (2022).

Davos, a city in Switzerland, had a population of 10,774 at the end of 2024. The foreign population count was 3,200 at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2417 sources

Population10,774people31 Dec 2024Official source · Switzerland official denominator source

Median gross salary (region)6,952EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch

Average net rent17.32EUR/m²/month31 Dec 2024Regional figureOfficial source · Loyer moyen par m2 en francs selon le nombre de pièces, par canton (mean rent per m2 in CHF by number of rooms and canton)

Unemployment rate0.6%country median 2.3% — 74% belowOfficial source · Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO

Recorded crime6,785incidents per 100,000country median 11,440 — 41% belowOfficial source · Jahresbericht Graubünden 2025 — Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik

PM2.5, annual mean2.7µg/m³country median 8.8 — 69% belowOfficial source · Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU) and Empa NABEL

Lower unemployment than any other Swiss city that publishes it and cleaner air than any other Swiss city that publishes it.

Which Switzerland-wide rules apply when you move to Davos?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

Visa and entry rulesPassport-specific entry and national residence context.BenefitsCountry-wide eligibility and official application routes.Taxes in SwitzerlandNational rates and thresholds that apply in Davos.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€71

Mobile plan, 10 GB€56

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	70.68 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Swisscom blue Internet S¹²Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	56.03 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Salt Swiss 10GB⁷Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	17.32 EUR/m²/month	31 Dec 2024	Loyer moyen par m2 en francs selon le nombre de pièces, par canton (mean rent per m2 in CHF by number of rooms and canton)⁴Official · regional context

Is Davos a good place to live?

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Remote worker67%strong on work, weak on safety · range 57–77%

Skilled employee70%strong on work, weak on education · range 60–80%

Student37%strong on legal route, weak on education · range 26–48%

Family51%strong on family, weak on education · range 41–61%

Retirement57%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 46–68%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Davos?

The unemployment rate is 0.6 % (2022). Source: Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO¹

Unemployment across cities in SwitzerlandUnemployment in Davos is 0.6%. Of 176 cities with data, 52 have unemployment of 2 to under 3%.

0–11–22–33–44–55–66–78–99–1011–12

Davos 0.6%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	6,952 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch¹⁵Official
Unemployment rate	0.6 %country median 2.3%	31 Dec 2022	Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO¹Official

What does a salary buy in Davos?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

Left over each month€4,670of €5,836 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile
Left over

Line-by-line breakdown and sources

Each month	€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions; euro amounts at the ECB average for 2026-08.	€5,836
Rent, 60 m²€17.32/m² · official · Loyer moyen par m2 en francs selon le nombre de pièces, par canton (mean rent per m2 in CHF by number of rooms and canton) · 2024-12-31	− €1,039
Internet€71 · official · Swisscom blue Internet S · 2026-09-30	− €71
Mobile plan€56 · official · Salt Swiss 10GB · 2026-09-30	− €56
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€4,670

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Davos Salary needed to live in Davos

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Davos. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

arbeit.swiss — Public employment service

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs / public employment service

Job SearchCareer Counselling

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Davos. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

How safe is Davos?

Police recorded about 6,785 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Jahresbericht Graubünden 2025 — Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik³

Recorded crime across major citiesDavos highlighted among comparable cities

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Solothurn25,779

Bern20,196

Interlaken18,896

Olten15,369

Kloten13,097

St. Gallen9,783

Winterthur7,988

Muri bei Bern5,389

Wetzikon (ZH)4,048

Küsnacht (ZH)3,718

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	6,785 incidents per 100,000country median 11,440	31 Dec 2025	Jahresbericht Graubünden 2025 — Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik³Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Nearest airport	SMV	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁵Official
Distance to nearest airport	30 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports⁵Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Davos. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Cantonal integration programmes — Newcomer Adaptation

SEM and cantons

For migrants, refugees.

German, French, ItalianIn Person

Open official information

fide language promotion system — State Language Course

State Secretariat for Migration (SEM)

For adult migrants.

German, French, ItalianIn Person, Online

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Davos.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Davos?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 2.7 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU) and Empa NABEL⁹

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C

0°

0°-9°

1°-9°

5°-5°

8°-2°

13°2°

17°6°

19°8°

18°8°

14°4°

11°1°

5°-4°

1°-7°

JFMAMJJASOND

Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

129

133

150

JFMAMJJASOND

Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

111

120

154

152

154

167

188

179

160

145

103

JFMAMJJASOND

hours

Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.52.7WHO 5 · EU 25

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

PM2.5 across cities in SwitzerlandAnnual PM2.5 in Davos is 2.7 µg/m³. Of 43 cities with data, 12 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

2–36–77–88–99–1010–1116–1717–18

Davos 2.7

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	2.7 µg/m³country median 8.8	31 Dec 2024	Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU) and Empa NABEL⁹Official
Average daytime high by month	Jan 0 · Feb 1.2 · Mar 4.6 · Apr 8.3 · May 12.8 · Jun 16.5 · Jul 18.5 · Aug 18.2 · Sep 14.2 · Oct 10.8 · Nov 4.8 · Dec 0.6 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official
Average night-time low by month	Jan -8.8 · Feb -9 · Mar -5.5 · Apr -2 · May 2.3 · Jun 5.8 · Jul 7.6 · Aug 7.7 · Sep 4.1 · Oct 0.8 · Nov -3.8 · Dec -7.2 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official
Average temperature by month	Jan -4.7 · Feb -4.2 · Mar -0.7 · Apr 3 · May 7.4 · Jun 11 · Jul 12.8 · Aug 12.6 · Sep 8.7 · Oct 5.1 · Nov 0 · Dec -3.6 °C	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official
Average precipitation by month	Jan 70.1 · Feb 52 · Mar 56.7 · Apr 54.4 · May 88.7 · Jun 128.7 · Jul 133.1 · Aug 149.5 · Sep 96.3 · Oct 77.1 · Nov 71.2 · Dec 68.1 mm	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official
Average sunshine by month	Jan 110.6 · Feb 119.8 · Mar 153.8 · Apr 152.4 · May 154.1 · Jun 167 · Jul 187.5 · Aug 179.3 · Sep 159.7 · Oct 144.6 · Nov 102.6 · Dec 93.4 hours	31 Dec 1991	World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI¹⁴Official

Similar climate. In Switzerland: Winterthur ±4.8 °C. Elsewhere: Jönköping (Sweden) ±2.1 °C, Barrie (Canada) ±3.7 °C, Auerbach/Vogtl. (Germany) ±1.8 °C, Klingenthal (Germany) ±1.8 °C, Schneeberg (Germany) ±1.8 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Davos?

The published population was 10,774 people in 2024. Source: Switzerland official denominator source¹³

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport70.3%
Foreign residents29.7%

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Cars per 1,000 residents	479.1 cars/1000 residents	31 Dec 2024	Swiss Federal Statistical Office/OFS/BFS¹¹Official
City area	284 km²	2019	Exact BFS Arealstatistik municipality area: sum of exhaustive NOAS top-level categories 1-4, PERIOD=A4 (2013-2018), FJ=2019, municipality REGION state 2025-01-01; hectares converted to km².²Official
Foreign non-permanent residents	1,115 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁶Official
Foreign residents	3,200 people	31 Dec 2024	Ständige Wohnbevölkerung, Staatsangehörigkeit = Ausland, Gemeinde grain, 31.12.2024.⁸Official
Non-permanent residents	1,115 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁶Official
Population density	37.9 people/km²	31 Dec 2024	Reproducible density from BFS STATPOP permanent population at 31.12.2024 divided by the exact official BFS municipality area denominator (2013-2018; FJ=2019; area observed_at=2019).²Official
Population	10,774 people	31 Dec 2024	Switzerland official denominator source¹³Official
Swiss non-permanent residents	0 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁶Official
Swiss permanent residents	7,574 people	31 Dec 2024	Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024⁶Official

International community in Davos

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Country of birth

Permanent resident population, total sex, all ages · 2025-12-31

Published group	People	Share
Place of birth - total	10,738	100.0%
In Switzerland	7,083	66.0%
Abroad	3,655	34.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹⁰

Country of birth

Non-permanent resident population, total sex, all ages · 2025-12-31

Published group	People	Share
Place of birth - total	1,119	100.0%
Abroad	1,111	99.3%
In Switzerland	8	0.7%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹⁰

Citizenship

Non-permanent resident population, total sex, all ages · 2025-12-31

Published group	People	Share
Citizenship - total	1,119	100.0%
Italy	238	21.3%
Germany	225	20.1%
Portugal	153	13.7%
Spain	119	10.6%
Greece	86	7.7%
Slovakia	39	3.5%
Czechia	34	3.0%
Romania	30	2.7%
Poland	27	2.4%

Show 23 more groups

Published group	People	Share
Austria	25	2.2%
Croatia	22	2.0%
Hungary	21	1.9%
Netherlands	13	1.2%
Belgium	10	0.9%
Bulgaria	10	0.9%
France	10	0.9%
Afghanistan	9	0.8%
Sweden	7	0.6%
Canada	7	0.6%
China	6	0.5%
Slovenia	5	0.4%
Somalia	5	0.4%
Ireland	3	0.3%
Ukraine	3	0.3%
United States	3	0.3%
Angola	2	0.2%
Eritrea	2	0.2%
Denmark	1	0.1%
Finland	1	0.1%
Russia	1	0.1%
Chile	1	0.1%
Philippines	1	0.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹⁰

Alternatives for people set on Davos

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Biel/Bienne as a Davos alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 200 km, better on 1 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent and recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 56,896 Biel/Bienne vs 10,774 Davos+428%
Rent: €14.52/m² (2021) Biel/Bienne vs €17.32/m² (2024) Davosno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 15,776 Biel/Bienne vs 6,785 Davosno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €7,310 Biel/Bienne vs €6,952 Davos+5%
Nearest airport: 31.0 km Biel/Bienne vs 30.0 km Davos+3%

Full comparison More about Biel/Bienne

Cities near Davos

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Alternative cities in Switzerland

Other cities in Switzerland to compare with Davos, nearest in population first.

All Switzerland cities

Payerne10,758 residents Lutry10,751 residents Münchenbuchsee10,696 residents Val-de-Travers10,691 residents Sarnen10,862 residents Crissier10,676 residents

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Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Davos under the national coverage rules.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 4 to 15, and public school is free. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: Einführungsklassen / integrative DaZ-Sprachförderung (per canton). How to enrol a child (edk.ch).

A country-wide rule for Switzerland; Davos's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.

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Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Davos?

The published population was 10,774 people in 2024. Source: Switzerland official denominator source.

Is the air quality good in Davos?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 2.7 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU) and Empa NABEL.

How safe is Davos?

What is the unemployment rate in Davos?

The unemployment rate is 0.6 % (2022). Source: Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS/FSO), source data SECO.

What is the typical salary around Davos?

The median gross salary is 6,952 EUR/month. Source: www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch.

Is Davos a good place to live?

Davos may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Which cities are near Davos?

Chur is near Davos. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Place of birth - total live in Davos?

The official country of birth distribution records 10,738 people (100.0%) in the source-defined population for 2025-12-31. This is a country of birth measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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  title = {Davos, Switzerland: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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Jahresbericht Graubünden 2025 — Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik Jahresbericht Graubünden 2025 · gr.ch · checked 2026-09-24
Loyer moyen par m2 en francs selon le nombre de pièces, par canton (mean rent per m2 in CHF by number of rooms and canton) dam-api.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-09-24
OurAirports davidmegginson.github.io · checked 2026-08-03
Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 2024 pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-07-18
Salt Swiss 10GB salt.ch · checked 2026-09-15
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Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU) and Empa NABEL bafu.admin.ch · checked 2026-08-04
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-08-30

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Swiss Federal Statistical Office/OFS/BFS pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-08-08
Swisscom blue Internet S swisscom.ch · checked 2026-09-15
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World Meteorological Organization / NOAA NCEI ncei.noaa.gov · checked 2026-08-02
www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch pxweb.bfs.admin.ch · checked 2026-08-27
Coordinate identity evidence wikidata.org · checked 2026-09-06
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