Postcode and municipality
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Municipality hub
Estavayer
Estavayer connects 7 postcode pages in Fribourg. This hub shows membership, address shares, and demographic context.
- Postcodes
- 7
- Population
- 11'554
- Streets
- 388
- Effective tax rate
- 14.61%
- ESTV: single, CHF 80,000, no church tax
Postcodes in Estavayer
The municipality includes 3 split-postcode cases and 15 locality names. Use the links for address, demographic, and map context.
1475
Autavaux
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 1'733
- Effective tax rate
- 14.61%
1486
Vuissens
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 1'733
- Effective tax rate
- 14.61%
1489
Murist
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 1'733
- Effective tax rate
- 14.61%
1542
Rueyres-les-Prés
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 1'733
- Effective tax rate
- 14.61%
1470
Estavayer-le-Lac
- Address share
- 99.6%
- Population
- 2'941
- Effective tax rate
- 14.61%
1541
Bussy FR
- Address share
- 66.7%
- Population
- 984
- Effective tax rate
- 14.61%
1473
Font
- Address share
- 50.0%
- Population
- 698
- Effective tax rate
- 14.61%
How this municipality cluster behaves
Estavayer connects these postcodes through one administrative structure.
For ESTV tax year 2024, the standard scenario produces CHF 11'684 total tax, or 14.61% effective.
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