Täsch holds the top spot by a wide margin. Its 68.2% foreign-national share puts it well ahead of St. Moritz and Zermatt. Further down, Kreuzlingen and Chavannes-près-Renens tie at 57.7%. Look at the top ten overall, and you see postcodes scattered across Valais, Graubünden, Thurgau, Vaud, Ticino, Aargau, and St. Gallen. This isn't just a story about big cities pulling in expats.
Instead, the map is a mix of three distinct environments. You have the classic alpine resorts: Täsch, St. Moritz, Zermatt, and Champfèr. You have border towns like Kreuzlingen and St. Margrethen SG. And then you have places like Chavannes-près-Renens and Neuenhof—commuter hubs plugged into larger urban labor markets. Add Paradiso and Rorschach to the list, and the picture gets even more varied.
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A high percentage here only measures passport data. It doesn't track where people grew up, what languages they speak, or how well they fit into the neighborhood.
Scale also skews the picture. Täsch looks extreme, but its 68.2% comes from a population of just 1,582. Compare that to Kreuzlingen, where 57.7% translates to a much larger base of 23,758 people. The percentages look similar, but the absolute numbers are entirely different.
If you read this ranking as a simple "most international places" list, you're missing the point. It's actually a structural map of the Swiss economy. It shows exactly where cross-border commuting, seasonal tourism, and international corporate hiring intersect with the local housing market.
