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Municipality hub
Diegten
Diegten connects 4 postcode pages in Basel-Landschaft. This hub shows membership, address shares, and demographic context.
- Postcodes
- 4
- Population
- 1'749
- Streets
- 103
- Effective tax rate
- 13.55%
- ESTV: single, CHF 80,000, no church tax
Postcodes in Diegten
The municipality includes 4 split-postcode cases and 4 locality names. Use the links for address, demographic, and map context.
How this municipality cluster behaves
Diegten connects these postcodes through one administrative structure.
For ESTV tax year 2024, the standard scenario produces CHF 10'841 total tax, or 13.55% effective.
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