Postcode and municipality
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Municipality hub
La Roche
La Roche connects 2 postcode pages in Fribourg. This hub shows membership, address shares, and demographic context.
- Postcodes
- 2
- Population
- 1'957
- Streets
- 129
- Effective tax rate
- 14.68%
- ESTV: single, CHF 80,000, no church tax
Postcodes in La Roche
The municipality includes 2 split-postcode cases and 2 locality names. Use the links for address, demographic, and map context.
How this municipality cluster behaves
La Roche connects these postcodes through one administrative structure.
For ESTV tax year 2024, the standard scenario produces CHF 11'744 total tax, or 14.68% effective.
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