Half travel by car: approximately 3.6 million Swiss commute to work

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In 2022, approximately 3.6 million people traveled to Switzerland to work. Of these, 71 percent worked outside their residential community, the Federal Bureau of Statistics (BFS) announced on Friday. In 1990 this was 58 percent (2.9 million commuters), 13 percent less.

The BFS defines commuters as employees aged 15 years and over who have a permanent workplace outside their residential building. Commuters do not include those who work from home or those who do not have a permanent workplace.

Average of 14 kilometers per ride

In general, the commuter flows connect the major cities in Switzerland on the central plateau axis from Zurich to Geneva. A comparison of cantons showed that Basel-Stadt and Zug attracted the most commuters from other cantons in 2022 in proportion to their size, as the BFS also announced.

In the survey year, commuters in Switzerland traveled an average of 14 kilometers (one way) to get to work. According to the BFS, it took them an average of 30 minutes to get to work.

Half of commuters, 50 percent, used the car as their main mode of transportation to get to work. 29 percent went to work by public transport, of which 16 percent by train. 18 percent walked or cycled to work.

Students travel more kilometers than employees

In addition to work commuters, there were approximately 0.7 million trainees aged 15 and over (apprentices, apprentices, students) in Switzerland in 2022. According to the BFS, they traveled an average of 12 miles to get to their training facility.

They preferred to use public transport to get to the training facility: rail and public road transport accounted for a combined share of 68 percent of the main mode of transport in 2022. (SDA)

Source:Blick