City · Basel-Stadt
Basel
Basel, also known as Basle, is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city, with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits.
Housing market in Basel
The following figures are for the whole municipality Basel belongs to. The vacancy rate is 0.77%, roughly the cantonal average (0.78 %) — a tight rental market. The municipal tax multiplier (Steuerfuss) is 50% (2026), roughly the average of the canton's municipalities (48.8 %). A single person without children on a gross wage of CHF 100'000 pays CHF 12'958 a year in canton, municipality and personal tax in the municipality of Basel (tax year 2026, without church, federal and wealth tax). On the mean of the municipalities weighted by residents it is CHF 12'803 in the canton and CHF 12'251 in Switzerland. Median taxable income of all taxpayers is CHF 47'400 (tax period 2022). The municipality has 180'097 residents (2025).
Sources: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss Federal Tax Administration (FTA).
