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Tafers is a city in Switzerland, with a population of 8,026 at the end of 2024. The resident counts list 6,896 Swiss permanent residents and 15 non-permanent residents at the end of 2024.

Last checked 2026-10-1027 sources

Population8,026people31 Dec 2024Official source · Switzerland official denominator source
Median gross salary (region)7,310EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch
Average net rent16.59EUR/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)
Recorded crime1,905incidents per 100,000country median 11,440 — 83% belowOfficial source · Statistique policière de la criminalité 2025 — Canton de Fribourg
PM2.5, annual mean6.48µg/m³31 Dec 2024Nearest stationOfficial source · Annual AQ statistics (AirBase & e-Reporting merged)

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

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 Tafers.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Tafers recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€71
Mobile plan, 10 GB€56
MetricValuePeriodSource
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited70.68 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Swisscom blue Internet S16Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB56.03 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Salt Swiss 10GB11Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)16.59 EUR/m²/month31 Dec 2024Loyer 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 Tafers a good place to live?

There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.

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Remote worker73%strong on work, weak on housing · range 63–83%
Skilled employee73%strong on work, weak on education · range 63–83%
Student53%strong on cost, weak on education · range 42–64%
Family68%strong on family, weak on education · range 58–78%
Retirement63%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 51–75%

Work and income

MetricValuePeriodSource
Median gross salary (regional)7,310 EUR/month31 Dec 2024www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch18Official

What does a salary buy in Tafers?

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

regional median gross pay: €7,310 (pxweb.bfs.admin.ch, 2024-12-31).
Left over each month€4,991of €6,113 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.€6,113
Rent, 60 m²€16.59/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− €995
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€4,991
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Tafers Salary needed to live in Tafers

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Tafers. 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

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

Safety

How safe is Tafers?

Police recorded about 1,905 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Statistique policière de la criminalité 2025 — Canton de Fribourg13

Recorded crime across major citiesTafers highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Tafers highlighted

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
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents1,905 incidents per 100,000country median 11,44031 Dec 2025Statistique policière de la criminalité 2025 — Canton de Fribourg13Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Tafers. 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
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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 Tafers.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Tafers?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 6.5 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³.

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

  • PM2.5 — annual mean: 6.48 µg/m³ · Annual AQ statistics (AirBase & e-Reporting merged)1
Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C
Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm
Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours
Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

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 Tafers is 6.5 µg/m³. Of 43 cities with data, 12 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

MetricValuePeriodSource
PM2.5 — annual mean6.48 µg/m³31 Dec 2024Annual AQ statistics (AirBase & e-Reporting merged)1Official · nearest-station reading
Average daytime high by monthJan 2.4 · Feb 3 · Mar 6.8 · Apr 10.6 · May 14.7 · Jun 18.5 · Jul 20.6 · Aug 20.2 · Sep 15.6 · Oct 11.4 · Nov 6.2 · Dec 3.5 °C31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO5Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by monthJan -3.3 · Feb -3.2 · Mar -0.3 · Apr 2.6 · May 6.3 · Jun 10 · Jul 11.9 · Aug 11.9 · Sep 8.4 · Oct 4.9 · Nov 0.5 · Dec -2.4 °C31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO6Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by monthJan -0.4 · Feb -0.2 · Mar 3.1 · Apr 6.4 · May 10.4 · Jun 14.1 · Jul 16.1 · Aug 15.9 · Sep 11.8 · Oct 8 · Nov 3.3 · Dec 0.5 °C31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO7Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by monthJan 54.3 · Feb 52.1 · Mar 66.1 · Apr 87.3 · May 145.2 · Jun 138 · Jul 144.4 · Aug 147.4 · Sep 110.6 · Oct 103.9 · Nov 75.1 · Dec 75.3 mm31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO8Official · nearest-station reading
Average sunshine by monthJan 96.5 · Feb 112.4 · Mar 151.2 · Apr 166.7 · May 180.3 · Jun 209.4 · Jul 233.9 · Aug 219.1 · Sep 167 · Oct 126.6 · Nov 90.6 · Dec 83.8 hours31 Dec 1991NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information / WMO9Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In Switzerland: Winterthur ±1.6 °C. Elsewhere: Schongau (Germany) ±0.5 °C, Weilheim in Oberbayern (Germany) ±0.5 °C, Jönköping (Sweden) ±1.5 °C, Eutin (Germany) ±1.7 °C, Gentofte (Denmark) ±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 Tafers?

The published population was 8,026 people in 2024. Source: Switzerland official denominator source17

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
Cars per 1,000 residents563.7 cars/1000 residents31 Dec 2024Swiss Federal Statistical Office/OFS/BFS15Official
City area41.39 km²2020Exact BFS Arealstatistik municipality area: sum of exhaustive NOAS top-level categories 1-4, PERIOD=A5 (2020-2025), FJ=2020, municipality REGION state 2025-01-01; hectares converted to km².2Official
Foreign non-permanent residents15 people31 Dec 2024Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 202410Official
Foreign residents1,130 people31 Dec 2024Ständige Wohnbevölkerung, Staatsangehörigkeit = Ausland, Gemeinde grain, 31.12.2024.12Official
Non-permanent residents15 people31 Dec 2024Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 202410Official
Population density193.9 people/km²31 Dec 2024Reproducible density from BFS STATPOP permanent population at 31.12.2024 divided by the exact official BFS municipality area denominator (2020-2025; FJ=2020; area observed_at=2020).2Official
Population8,026 people31 Dec 2024Switzerland official denominator source17Official
Swiss non-permanent residents0 people31 Dec 2024Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 202410Official
Swiss permanent residents6,896 people31 Dec 2024Permanent and non permanent resident population by municipality, resident type and citizenship, 202410Official

International community in Tafers

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 groupPeopleShare
Place of birth - total8,030100.0%
In Switzerland6,74284.0%
Abroad1,28816.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source14

Country of birth

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

Published groupPeopleShare
Place of birth - total16100.0%
Abroad1593.8%
In Switzerland16.3%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source14

Citizenship

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

Published groupPeopleShare
Citizenship - total16100.0%
France318.8%
Romania318.8%
Canada318.8%
Ukraine212.5%
Belgium16.3%
Bulgaria16.3%
Finland16.3%
Spain16.3%
Türkiye16.3%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source14

Alternatives for people set on Tafers

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.

Lausanne as a Tafers alternative in the same region

54 km away, better on 0 of 2 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent and recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 144,873 Lausanne vs 8,026 Tafers+1705%
  • Rent: €19.13/m² (2021) Lausanne vs €16.59/m² (2024) Tafersno percentage
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 16,168 Lausanne vs 1,905 Tafersno percentage
  • Median gross pay, region: €7,346 Lausanne vs €7,310 Taferssame level
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Luzern as a Tafers alternative in the same country

87 km away, better on 0 of 2 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent and recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 86,234 Luzern vs 8,026 Tafers+974%
  • Rent: €17.56/m² (2021) Luzern vs €16.59/m² (2024) Tafersno percentage
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 12,894 Luzern vs 1,905 Tafersno percentage
  • Median gross pay, region: €7,445 Luzern vs €7,310 Taferssame level
Full comparisonMore about Luzern

Cities near Tafers

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

Alternative cities in Switzerland

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

All Switzerland cities
Dietlikon8,027 residentsDürnten8,048 residentsSeuzach7,990 residentsOrbe7,978 residentsWindisch8,153 residentsMalters7,868 residents

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Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Tafers 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; Tafers's school authority applies it locally.

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

Is Tafers part of Fribourg?

Tafers is in the published commuting zone of Fribourg; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Fribourg city profile

Relationship type: Commuting Zone Of. Source3

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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 Tafers?

The published population was 8,026 people in 2024. Source: Switzerland official denominator source.

Is the air quality good in Tafers?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 6.5 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: Annual AQ statistics (AirBase & e-Reporting merged).

How safe is Tafers?

Police recorded about 1,905 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Statistique policière de la criminalité 2025 — Canton de Fribourg.

What is the typical salary around Tafers?

The median gross salary is 7,310 EUR/month. Source: www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch.

How many foreign residents live in Tafers?

1,130 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Ständige Wohnbevölkerung, Staatsangehörigkeit = Ausland, Gemeinde grain, 31.12.2024..

Is Tafers a good place to live?

Tafers 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.

Is Tafers part of Fribourg?

Tafers is in the published commuting zone of Fribourg; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub.

Which cities are near Tafers?

Fribourg, Düdingen, Wünnewil-Flamatt, Villars-sur-Glâne, Schwarzenburg are near Tafers. 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 Tafers?

The official country of birth distribution records 8,030 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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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Tafers, Switzerland: population, rent, salary, safety [ImmigrationDB compilation; version f1f923ae3cccb21a339d480af93a83a6]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/ch/tafers/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  title = {Tafers, Switzerland: population, rent, salary, safety},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {f1f923ae3cccb21a339d480af93a83a6},
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}
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