Population
27'059↑0.7%
About Cointrin
City · Genève
Geneva Airport – formerly and still unofficially known as Cointrin Airport – is the international airport for Geneva, the second most populous city in Switzerland. It is located 4 km (2.5 mi) northwest of the city centre. It surpassed the 15-million-passengers-a-year mark for the first time in December 2014. The airport serves as a hub for Swiss International Air Lines and easyJet Switzerland. It features a network of flights mainly to continental European destinations as well as some long-haul routes to North America, China, Africa, and the Middle East, amongst them Swiss International Air Lines' only long-haul service outside Zürich, to New York–JFK.
Population
27'059
Tax multiplier
42%
Cointrin in numbers
Federal data — BFS (STATPOP, STATENT, land use), ESTV, BAKOM, ARE.Tax multiplier
42%
Median taxable income
CHF 63'163
+15% vs CH
Vacancy
0.16%↓30.4%
- Settlement66%
- Agriculture28%
- Forest4%
- Other1%
Foreign residents
46.0%↓0.3%
Dwellings
11'250↓0.5%
Jobs (FTE)
22'056↑2.6%
90%
30%
Fibre
Housing market in Cointrin
The rental vacancy rate is 0.16%, 53% below the cantonal average (0.34 %) — a tight rental market. The municipal tax multiplier (Steuerfuss) is 42%, 4% below the cantonal average (44 %) — tax-favourable. Median taxable income is CHF 63'163, 6% below the Swiss median (CHF 67'216). Cointrin has 27'059 residents (2024).
Source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS).
